This weekend will be weird because we have two social events in a row. We’re not terribly social – in fact, we suffer from a form of inertia that makes it very difficult for us to leave the house under social pressure. Hopefully these events – a party for a friend who’s just finished a new novel, a wedding reception for a good friend who was married last weekend – won’t leave us too wrung out.
I’m expecting that the next week will be pretty hard. Here’s the list of things to do (probably in the order of their importance):
- Final for Heidegger seminar
I’d like to try and get this done in advance of the night before it’s due. While writing the midterm for this course I chugged out a remarkable 22 pages starting at 10:00pm the night before (having only 3 hours of sleep) and finishing at 3:30pm the day it was due. Also, that day I taught two classes. I don’t know how I did that. This was really, really terrible (even though I earned a 92/100 … I’m one of those peeps who likes getting A’s on her report card, so I’d better get it together to get a more solid A). I’m hoping that over the next five days I can devote myself to piece at a time. It’s due Wednesday 5/14.
- Set up Learning Modules for online course
Yesterday I spent the afternoon in the library setting up the “Start Here” and “Your Instructor” pages. Turns out that creating entirely new content is horribly, horribly time consuming. Also it can be perilous – I was conked in the head not one, but three times by an idiot person at the table behind me who kept stretching to his full height. I think he got the message after I gave him the stink eye. Anyway, these two simple projects took me four hours, and basically tanked the afternoon. I still have to set up the first two learning modules to give myself a cushion.
I’ve noticed that if I work from home I spend roughly half the time eating cheese, artichokes, bourbon, brownie bites, and (on Tuesday after discovering plagiarism) raw cookie dough. Going to the library keeps me focused and is a good strategy for keeping off those end-of-semester pounds.
- Grade Exams and Homework sets for Logic class
Thankfully, one of my three classes is in the can (as of yesterday … final grades done and all!). That leaves two to go, and one of them is logic. The last exam in logic class is on propositional logic and so that means that sometime before Thursday 5/15 I have to get truth tables graded. There are few things more tedious than grading truth tables. Also on Thursday, I have final papers coming in for Intro students.
Did I mention we’re (hopefully) closing on a house next week? On Thursday 5/15? Oh man.
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