The past two days have been very full, with classes starting (classes less thoroughly planned than I like), a variety of meetings and obligations and negotiations. Today I had two two-hour sessions scheduled, plus another hour that overlapped with one of my morning hours. Although it took me a while to get going, it all turned out OK, I think.
My current workload is not comparable to cotton picking or coal mining, so let’s not make too much of it. It’s not even comparable to that of plenty of other academic labourers. It’s good to get to the end of a complicated day, though, and to sense that the classes went well.