The Next Three Weeks

So it's after 10pm, Sunday night, and I have just finally gotten through a bare minimum for tomorrow. I still need to read the stories we're workshopping in fiction class, and I still need to figure out a clear idea of how I'm going to cover some style issues in my 121 class. These will have to wait until coffee in the morning, as I've fucking worked enough for a weekend. Yes, I didn't do any work from Wednesday-Saturday late afternoon, but still, I resent it when Sunday comes and I have to work the whole day through. Some of it is simply still catching up from the conference the previous week, and some of the work marathon resulted from all the technological snags that Camtasia brought to my being. And so, with tonight, I can't help but ponder what the next three weeks hold.

• Read a 121 class set of portfolios and find time to conference with most students about their portfolios.
• Read a set of online multigenre final projects. I am thankful that this semester it has ended up being a small class, so getting it shouldn't prove as impossible a task as in previous semesters. If I was smart, the due dates for these are after the in-class due dates, but I am too frightened to view the calendar tonight.
• Read a set of fiction portfolios and conference with students about their portfolios. Go through their journals, contract rationales, and determine grades in conference.
• Deal with whatever fallout might arise after the system President makes her choice for our new President. The search committee ended up forwarding two names. One of the names has pretty total faculty support, while the other will cause some faculty to cry foul.
• Create the basics of summer schedule. Probably also create the basic schedule for fall.
• Attend too many meetings at times that conflict with my finishing up some work. Meetings should be banned during the final two weeks of the semester--ah what a concept.
  
• Go to Boston for a power meeting with the editor/publisher for our textbook. This occurs right as I've received the batch of final portfolios.
• Figure out how to survive the end of the semester if my workstudy has actually consumed all her allotted hours.
• Compute grades for all my classes, including  blog/online grades and participation.
• Read the portfolios for the Endowed Teaching Chair applicants.
• Write an honors community seminar proposal for the Spring 2009 Honors Seminar based on using the World of Warcraft as the classroom (inspiration between Liz and I while attending the League for Innovation CIT conference in Nashville).
  
• Continue to work on the textbook with Liz , in between all this craziness, in order to keep momentum moving.
  
• Ponder and write my Top 10 CDs/music for 2007. This will probably take some reflection, hours of listening, and then some time to compose in the blog.
• Avoid becoming totally addicted to Scrabulous in Facebook. I currently have 9 games going (thankfully a few seem rather dormant).

I'm sure there's plenty my tired ol brain has forgotten at the moment. I feel better, in a perturbed absurd way after writing this list, since the writing distances it from reality--yeah, twisted I know. I also feel better because it truly is absurd what I need to do in the next few weeks (no social distractions mentioned, but I know they are in there), and know that this is the case every semester, and every semester it gets done, I get tired, and then I REST and self indulge for several weeks.

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