Not...enough....hours....in...the....day....

When I had the idea of starting grad school, I had this fantastic (fantastic as in root word fantasy, not the awesome kind of fantastic) idea that I would keep regular hours and treat the sucker like a 9 to 5, or 9 to 4, or 10 to 6....or whatever have you.  So far it's attainable, I'm out every day by 8:30 and home every day by 5:30, but it's only the first week and I haven't been bombarded by assignments and projects and labwork and teaching and marking.....just the first one and the last two. 
Early on, to keep me on track, I told myself that if I'm finding I have to work later and later, I'm either procrastinating too much or running a really intense experiment that requires off-hours work.  I don't know how the other profs do it, but I already feel like I'm falling behind....and I'm sticking my nose to the grindstone for the most part.  I haven't even internetted on my lab computer yet, just e-mail. 
Honestly, I have no idea how come I didn't go crazy as an undergrad (or maybe I was crazy and didn't recognize it).  I have no idea how people do this with a small child at home....gahhhh.  Maybe 2.5 years of "real world" has left me spoiled and soft.  Perhaps. 
Either way, I figure if I sit myself down this weekend and burn through the material for the class that I'm teaching for lessons up until February break, I'll be able to at least make outlines and resort to reviewing on the couch the night before.  I know the stuff, I use it every day, but I need a really good refresher. 

On a side note, I re-learned a new term today:
"to yard-sale": v.  To stumble, trip or fall so badly that all of your belongings end up on the floor in a mess with a significant blast radius; to leave a situation in a state of disarray in such a fashion that it looks like every thing is every where in no state of organization, like a yard-sale. 
ie: Dude, I saw this kid totally yard-sale at the top of the stairs.  His shit was every where!  Even the crap from his pockets, everything!
Thanks Nelly, I'm totally using that in my class tomorrow morning to help illustrate face loss.