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+title: 'The Ticker'
+date: '2005-11-16T16:18:22-05:00'
+permalink: /the-ticker/
+tags:
+    - teaching
+    - 'to do'
+---
+
+Certainly this is more for my benefit than for yours, but here’s what now [remains](/what_remains/) before the sabbatical begins:
+
+- Seven teaching days.
+- Twelve class sessions.
+- Three sessions of office hours.
+- Four committee meetings.
+- Four meetings with a program administrator.
+- Two department dinners.
+- One set of Ph.D. orals.
+- One faculty forum.
+- One faculty meeting.
+- One graduate student conference.
+- One curriculum revision meetings.
+- Nine job candidate campus visits.
+- Twenty-five rough drafts of final new media projects.
+- Sixteen rough drafts of graduate term papers.
+- Sixteen final literary interpretation papers.
+- Twenty-five final new media projects.
+- Sixteen final graduate term papers.
+- One senior thesis draft.
+- Two final senior theses.
+
+That, and a bunch of packing, in the next month. That is what stands between me and freedom. Looking at it like that makes it seem a miniscule barrier, one easily gotten over. But ask me again in a couple of weeks how I’m feeling about it…
+