as I realize that 1) I've had a terrible cold for nearly a month, and 2) I need to have a class ready to go by Saturday!
So much for the winter break.
I guess one of the things I really like about being a professor is the intensity of the cycles-when school is in session it's one deadline after another. When it's not, it's nice lazy days of reading (I just finished William Gibson's Neuromancer - I don't know why I didn't read it sooner).
Well those days are now behind me, the Christmas tree is down, the leisure reading books are put away and now it's time to put together syllabi and get cracking!
Happy New Year, and happy new semester fellow profs!
Monday, January 7, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
End of one semester, beginning of another
I was having a brief conversation with a woman during the coffee hour at church, about where this supposed "break" that we have goes.
I've already been back to work-reading Darren's dissertation, trying to figure out what I'm doing with my database class for my doctoral students, trying to figure out what will happen now that my dean is stepping down. And hoping that next year we get a raise, however small-my health insurance increased by 50%, our heating bill is outrageous, our taxes are going up (again!) and both of us are living on "fixed incomes" which is not how it was supposed to be-I at least was supposed to be getting some kind of raise. Oh well. At least I have a job. But as I'm fond of saying, if I knew that I was going to work this hard for this little money I'd probably have stayed in corporate America. Now it's too late-I'm too old for them to take me back.
I am thinking about what else I can do to supplement my salary-maybe revive my consulting practice, maybe do some corporate training, something so that I don't feel as though I'm falling behind.
It's going to be an interesting year, that's for sure! I wish all of us peace, health and happiness in 2008.
I've already been back to work-reading Darren's dissertation, trying to figure out what I'm doing with my database class for my doctoral students, trying to figure out what will happen now that my dean is stepping down. And hoping that next year we get a raise, however small-my health insurance increased by 50%, our heating bill is outrageous, our taxes are going up (again!) and both of us are living on "fixed incomes" which is not how it was supposed to be-I at least was supposed to be getting some kind of raise. Oh well. At least I have a job. But as I'm fond of saying, if I knew that I was going to work this hard for this little money I'd probably have stayed in corporate America. Now it's too late-I'm too old for them to take me back.
I am thinking about what else I can do to supplement my salary-maybe revive my consulting practice, maybe do some corporate training, something so that I don't feel as though I'm falling behind.
It's going to be an interesting year, that's for sure! I wish all of us peace, health and happiness in 2008.
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