Where do the days go?
This one mostly went to a couple of meetings, one about a new edition of a textbook I’m working on, the other about interactive textbooks. You know, that kind of thing.
The rest went to a bit of this, a touch of that, and a whole lot of not enough of the other thing. I again didn’t even look at the project I was going to try and start finishing yesterday, but only because I have a bunch of other projects that are maybe a little more important to get finished, or started.
This is getting to be a weird time, as we near the end of the calendar and academic year, and a tough time to corral reviewers for projects. (“How ’bout, instead of your suggested four weeks I take eight? By which I maybe mean twelve, if I’m anything like most instructors? Would that work for you?”) Looking at the calendar and realizing I’m almost certainly not going to get some things finished before 2013 — especially with me out next week and a good bit at the end of December — well, worse things have happened. There’s nothing critical here. And we did have that storm.
But I’m honestly at the point where I’m seriously thinking, You know, I could totally bring my laptop home next week and do some work, vacation days or not.
It’s not the greatest idea I’ve ever had, but still. I mean, the last time I took a vacation day and didn’t bring my laptop home with me, I was stuck out of the office for nine days.