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title: 'The Ticker'
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date: '2005-11-16T16:18:22-05:00'
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permalink: /the-ticker/
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tags:
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- teaching
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- 'to do'
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Certainly this is more for my benefit than for yours, but here’s what now [remains](/what_remains/) before the sabbatical begins:
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- Seven teaching days.
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- Twelve class sessions.
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- Three sessions of office hours.
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- Four committee meetings.
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- Four meetings with a program administrator.
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- Two department dinners.
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- One set of Ph.D. orals.
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- One faculty forum.
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- One faculty meeting.
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- One graduate student conference.
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- One curriculum revision meetings.
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- Nine job candidate campus visits.
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- Twenty-five rough drafts of final new media projects.
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- Sixteen rough drafts of graduate term papers.
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- Sixteen final literary interpretation papers.
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- Twenty-five final new media projects.
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- Sixteen final graduate term papers.
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- One senior thesis draft.
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- Two final senior theses.
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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…
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