T Minus Fourteen Days

• Three teaching days.
• Five class sessions.
• One session of office hours.
• Two committee meetings.
• One meeting with a program administrator.
• Two lunches with deans.
• One department meeting.
• One program meeting.
• Four job candidate campus visits.
• Thirteen rough drafts of graduate term papers.
• Sixteen final literary interpretation papers.
• Twenty-five final new media projects.
• Sixteen final graduate term papers.
• One senior thesis draft.
• Two final senior theses.

Oh, yes — and:

• Clean the house.
• Pack a semester’s worth of belongings.
• Ship a semester’s worth of belongings.

Other than that, just cooling my heels.