What are the three best parts of being a professor? June, July, and August.

It’s an old saw, but it is true. To a point. If you don’t really organize yourself, that time can fly by and you return to the classroom in September with the queasy feeling of wasted time.

I submitted grades four weeks ago. I needed two weeks to recover my mental health. Then I needed two weeks to catch up on the housewifey stuff that piles up during the semester – scheduling doctor’s appointments, sorting through clothes, scrubbing the bathroom. Still, I have two months until my next lecture. What’s happening with that time?

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