RBOC or why it's Tuesday and I'm already exhausted by the week (OK a bit of a whine)

Sitting here at my computer, 8:26pm, it finally dawns on me the entirety of why, on this Tuesday evening, I am feeling like I've worked more than a full work week.

• I have spent many hours preparing for a Transgender Training I'm piloting tomorrow at school with two students. We are doing a test run for the GLBT Club, whose members are often those that need the training most.
• Several students in my online class have decided to try to pull out the class in the 7th hour. After not receiving any work, I now have a slew of assignments for me to respond to in order for them to continue with their writing and research.
• I did two class observations and am preparing responses for a conference for an observation done last week.
• Today I worked all day, left work and went to Liz's to try to figure out revision for a chapter on the book that needs to turnaround quickly for another set of reviews.
• My brain died a bit yesterday during a procurement card individualized training that really needed to only be five minutes, but instead was 45 minutes. I have resisted for about three years getting one, not wanting to have to deal with all the bureaucratic $ nonsense, relying instead on my admin to deal with departmental transactions. Now that I have access to $ for the GLBT Resource Center and cannot depend on anyone, short of the school's President (and I am certain she does not want to play purchase queen for me), I needed a way to make purchases.
• Once again I had to intervene on behalf of the proletariat at school. The school is about to undergo another cycle with AQIP, our credentialing system, and rather than have required action projects (that will help guide some direction on campus over the next few years) grow out of a conversation with the entire school, a group of about 16 people who comprise a council on campus that supposedly represents all constituents made a choice from a few proposed projects (only proposed by people who knew that AQIP action projects were being considered). Right after the meeting, I ran into one of the faculty reps, and when I asked about the meeting (campus gets an agenda), she told me about the projects chosen. I mentioned why I felt that it was problematic that a few decided on this direction without involving the campus, thus dwindling chances for buy-in. Happily, I discovered last night an email she sent to the President and council, relaying my concerns and rationale. Today, in a department chair meeting, we looked over a survey that was being created and sent out to everyone tomorrow morning to get a broad consensus (thus buy-in). I find it exhausting, though, that I am often the one to raise these issues, rather than my fellow faculty members who are on this council.

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