*blows dust off mike*

Yeah, I haven't posted here since the beginning of this academic year... and now it's the end, and I'm about to start grading the end-of-term papers. There's rather a lot going on just now, but most of it isn't yet for public consumption. By fall, I hope!

I'm working on a paper to give at a conference next week, though. Assuming I get it done (which, yes, I expect I will as I always manage somehow) that should be fun.

Post-Valentine

Well, I survived V-Day without hubby; we talked the day before and day after, as it's not possible for us to talk really except Tuesdays, Thursdays, and occasionally on the weekend, between our two schedules and his limited phone access.

I had somehow thought that having him gone would give me a lot more time to get things done, but it doesn't apparently work like that. I'm just barely not falling behind in class prep and grading, I have a conference paper that needs to be finished in the next 8 days that I have hardly started on, and the house is filthy. *sighs* What I want is, like, a fortnight of time that has no commitments whatsoever, just to let me catch up on things. Not going to happen, is it?

Solitude

So, my husband just left today for his sabbatical trip to Sweden. He won't be back until August. I'll be going to see him during my spring break in March (the plane reservations for that are already booked) and then again in May or June, after the end of the semester (not yet set, and probably for two weeks rather than one). It feels lonely already, although I have lots to do to keep me busy: two conference papers both of which involve some new data; a couple of articles to finish up and get out; usual housekeeping chores; teaching, including a course that's mostly new and will be a lot of work though fun; personal writing. Yup. It'll be interesting to see whether I can get it all done, whether his absence will mean less distraction and thus more accomplished, or less help and thus less accomplished.