@clhendricksbc i spoke about this last year in a wellness meeting on campus where focus was all on faculty & students & i was the precarious staff/sessional sitting there & finally i explained, folks, i don't even have the health coverage for the solutions you're proposing, let alone time. can we look at this systemically?

even among those who claim to love critical analysis, critical analysis when they want to feel warm & fuzzy isn't always welcome. :/

@bonstewart @clhendricksbc Oh yes, my goodness. This is a source of so much stress in higher education everywhere: the rise and rise of performative wellness. If only we did more yoga, used more tracking software, didn't waste time. As if there is a single minute of surplus time to be wasted that isn't already committed to bone-shuddering fatigue.

And the troping of critical as negative is such an effective way of silencing dissent, or even enquiry.

@katebowles @bonstewart It bugs me that the answer to work-life balance is often: do something to make yourself feel better about the shitty work life balance you have! If you just relax more in yoga & do meditation you can better get through your insane days & nights of work!

Sorry--I'm really ranting now. And in fact, I do do yoga & mindfulness things and find them really great. But it's not the heart of the issue.

@clhendricksbc, you are not alone.

I mean, I got NOTHIN' else. But you are not alone.

(gettin' my coffee and goin' back to the salt mines) @katebowles @bonstewart