Exhaustion

I am exhausted, in most every sense of the word. I'm trying to eat lunch, because I know I need to eat, but nothing sounds good. I spent most of the morning grading papers on Shakespeare and Mary Shelley and all kinds of other things; most were mediocre, at best. I've been having "issues" with sleep for the past few weeks (not that that's anything new), and I think that sleep deprivation is certainly part of my problem. Anyway, when I get like this, I just feel icky, you know? It's like I feel tired and slightly achy physically. And intellectually, I feel this general ennui. And I can't seem to do much of anything, although I did get tons of grading done this morning. That counts for something, right? All I really want to do is to sit very, very still and watch really mindless TV or Law and Order. And I start to feel generally frustrated with my appearance and my life and my job and my accomplishments. I don't know--maybe it's just that it's the end of the semester and I have all this work to do when what I really need is a break. When I get like this, I tend to just focus on the negative, which of course isn't a good thing. I don't know--I'm going to stop now and either get actual work done or go home and try to relax.