Selling Sno-Cones at the Beach

busy times, busy times

In the last 10 days, I've taught 5 classes, flown to the East Coast for a campus visit/interview, attended two meetings to observe faculty service, and rehearsed my job talk with my committee. Whew!

Basically, my only obligation for the rest of the term is to finish out teaching my course: three remaining sessions.

I am really looking forward to delving into dissertation work this weekend and in the weeks to come. I have about three weeks til the end of the semester, and then another week before Christmas, which, depending on where we are, could be productive or not. I got some real energy building from working on the job talk: it really helped to give me some ideas of where my project should be going. (Even though it was nerve-racking to work on it, and hard to process so many suggestions, and frustrating to figure out how to put it together.)

I have a telephone anecdote to share for my next posting. Stay tuned.