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+title: 'What Remains'
+date: '2005-11-09T14:38:12-05:00'
+permalink: /what-remains/
+tags:
+    - 'general whining'
+    - 'to do'
+---
+
+As I’ve mentioned [before](/olive_or_twist/), 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.
+