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Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: 4 Months of Holidays? Not Quite!

Nonresidents of the Ivory Tower of Academia often believe that we professors have nothing to do when we’re not teaching, that we spend much of our time outside the classroom engaged in leisurely activities, resting on hammocks sipping mint-juleps while pretending to be absorbed in deep contemplation during the bucolic summer season (“Hey professor, how’s life treating you these days?”).

I enjoyed reading this because I hear that all the time. Wow, life must be great since you have the summer off. To be honest, I can’t wait until fall, when things get a little more quiet. That’s when I’m ‘just teaching’ (plus everything else that goes on like papers and conferences and editing the journal, and committees and committees, oh, and committees). But since teaching is the focus then, it gives some pacing and focus. Summer time is just hell bent for planning, proposal writing and editing. No teaching and almost no committees. A whole week can go by and you wonder where it went, but proposal X is almost done.

Right now rochelle and I are supposed to be working on a paper… but I’m behind on my bit and am sad.