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+title: 'Pre-Semester Anxiety'
+date: '2008-01-14T13:11:31-05:00'
+permalink: /pre-semester-anxiety/
+tags:
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+    - work
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+Which is less anxiety about the semester, per se, than anxiety about the fact that the break between semesters is all but over, and that I’ve still got an enormous pile of stuff that really needs to be done before the spring gets fully underway. And this spring — yeesh — promises to be nuts: between, say, February 28 and April 5, I have four speaking gigs plus a conference I’m organizing here in Claremont. And that’s just five weeks out of the fifteen ahead of me, which will otherwise be filled with teaching an overload, advising senior theses, and the usual spring administrative insanity.
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+So the countdown has begun: a precious few days remain in which I can hope to get anything done. If you don’t hear from me, you know where I am.
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