The Struggle for Balance, Joy, and Work When this issue of Lore is published, many of us who teach writing will be planted in the middle of the semester, looking hopefully toward that glowing horizon known as the end of the school year and then stumbling across the glut of work that needs attention before we get there. And many of us will wonder, Can I meet my obligations and not lose it? Contributors to this issue reflect on how they have (at least momentarily) achieved that fragile balance that enables them to peacefully meet the demands placed on them as graduate students and writing instructors and remain fully human with lives outside of the academy.      Make Time for Time: Actively Balancing Work and Life      Stacey Jones Waller, Full-time Lecturer, University of Tennessee at Knoxville      Surviving Life as a Graduate Teaching Assistant: How One Student Manages      Kellie Fischer, M.A Student and Teaching Assistant, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington      Juggling 101      Ronit Sarig, M.A. Student and Teaching Assistant, California State University-Northridge      It's Just School      Peggy Kass, M.A. Student, Humboldt State University