Quite a week, last week. For some reason, absasmurfly everything that could go wrong from an admin POV did go wrong. Including, most significantly for my purposes, an unforced error or two.
By the weekend, was reduced to what a Victorian prime minister might have called a state of mild nervous prostration. But decided to observe the American holday by sleeping in after a placid Sunday, and now it's back to the fray.
Absolute discipline. Some people might call my approach characteristic of national socialism, others might call it characteristic of a Soviet commissar. The choice in those instances would be revealing of the speaker. But it is necessary to have the intensity of focus and being that was deivided between those two (and then reconciled, as Rory noted, at an extended academic seminar called the battle of Stalingrad). By divine edict, Eden isn't an option. Find the grace.