5/17: trying

...various strategies to get out of a funk (caused by a few not-so-great comments on my student feedback forms from the semester).  I went for a walk, talked with a friend (but not about the comments), made a nice soup for dinner, worked on a hand-out for next year that will (I hope) explain some of the things that students didn't like this year, and did some bureaucratic work so that the semester's end-tying can be over sooner rather than later.  The not-so-great comments were in the definite minority, and I need to remember that.  But it felt like they had animus behind them, so much so that the students' emotions seem to have distorted facts about what I did / didn't do, and that unsettled me.