What Remains

As I’ve mentioned before, as of December 17, I’m outta here. Between now and then, however, there remain:

• Five weeks and three days.
• Ten teaching days.
• Seventeen class sessions.
• Four sessions of office hours.
• Five committee meetings.
• Five meetings with a program administrator.
• Four department dinners.
• One set of Ph.D. orals.
• One faculty forum.
• One faculty meeting.
• One graduate student conference.
• Two teaching workshops.
• Three curriculum revision meetings.

And what is for me the kicker:

• Eleven job candidate campus visits.

I only wish I were kidding.

Oh, yeah — and there’s going to be some grading up in there somewhere, of things including:

• Sixteen final drafts of shorter papers.
• Sixteen final paper proposals.
• Twenty-five rough drafts of final projects.
• Sixteen rough drafts of graduate term papers.
• Sixteen final papers.
• Twenty-five final projects.
• Sixteen final graduate term papers.
• One senior thesis draft.
• Two final senior theses.

It would be bad enough even if I weren’t sure that there are things that will be added to the list as time goes on.