Off to a bad start!
On the boatloads!
Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!
It's going to help make heebie more productive that I'm totally about to STOMP! this post, right? That's what I'm telling myself.
Aren't you due, like, now? I think your main task is triage, and throwing most of the load of work over the side of the boat.
Aren't you due, like, now?
Two more weeks!
Second kid, though. You could be in labor tomorrow.
Not to be ominous, but don't count on those two weeks -- sort by urgency, and leave anything that can be left undone for last.
Probably good advice, but I'm overwhelmed by the idea of figuring out how to even triage. Get the final exams written? How do I know how much information I'll cover?
Actually, getting the exams written is probably a good place to start.
Sounds like a plan. If you wanted to be hyperconscientious, you could draft a maximalist version that covers everything you might possibly cover, but where you can just pull out a couple of questions if you don't get to that material, and screw with the grading to account for the shorter test.
Get the final exams written? How do I know how much information I'll cover?
So have some removable stuff at the end.
It's more like writing exams is a super sucky task that's really hard not to procrastinate on.
What would happen, examwise, if you went into labor now? Is there a 'someone else would handle it' plan, or would there be a real problem for your students if you couldn't do it? If the latter, I'd get over the desire to procrastinate by panicking now.
That sounded hectoring. I'm at panic stage on a couple of things myself, and I think my self-hectoring is spilling out a bit. Do what you were planning to do, and I'm sure it will turn out fine.
It'd probably mean that after a week, I'd come back into school and try to spend a day working out some contingency plans with other instructors to proctor final exams and hold review periods.
In one sense, there's plenty of time, since grades aren't actually due until Dec 16 or so. In another sense, doing work post-baby sounds super unappealing.
Inevitably I'll be grading after the baby arrives, though, since my finals are scheduled for the last minute. Bleagh.
OK, panic me. I've got to give a talk at 8AM tomorrow and I just cannot get started on it.
I even like the fucking topic.
So do a dramatic reading of some of the more interesting Unfogged threads instead, doing different voices for the various commenters.
I had plans to have a go at NaNoWriMo this month, but, erm, haven't. I even have an awesome [ahem] half-an-idea, and a whole half a page of notes...
16: OK! What does the Btock voice sound like?
I think I mentioned before about the time an Unfogged thread briefly popped up on my shared desktop during a big online meeting (control was thrown over to me unexpectedly and I forgot to take my usual prophylactic measures). Holy involuntary termination with cause, Batman!
So have some removable stuff at the end.
Like a baby!
I had plans to have a go at NaNoWriMo this month, but, erm, haven't. I even have an awesome [ahem] half-an-idea, and a whole half a page of notes...
And, don't forget, I have been trying to tempt you to do some music writing at some point.
re: 20
Yes! I even bought a book, to help. I'd planned to write on a particular thing, and then realised how partial my knowledge was; spotted a recent book on the same topic, so I've been reading that.
15: Talk is going great; in the last half-hour I went down to the Credit Union and cashed a stray US Savings Bond that I've been carrying around for weeks, talked to the benefits people about a COBRA issue and closed a money market account that mistakenly ended up with $1.05 in it. I'd pay my speeding ticket to Rowlesburg, West Virginia if I had my checkbook. Now it's down to either the talk or filling out performance feedback forms.
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Just because: my favorite new album.
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21: That reminds me... based on your recommendation, I picked up a copy of Perfecting Sound Forever. Thanks for the tip!
HG, didn't O-Lan, in The Good Earth, give birth in the rice paddy and keep working? You'd make a real statement to any slackers at Heebie U if you gave birth in the middle of a calc section and kept grilling the class on important concepts.
based on your recommendation, I picked up a copy of Perfecting Sound Forever. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for the reminder, I just requested a copy at my library.
I would also mention Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan as a very interesting, if quirky, history/analysis of music recording and the music industry.
Post title -> 25 (from the perspective of little HP the 2nd).
ttaM, pretend you're a kid and sign up on the NaNo Young Writers Program, then you can choose your own word count. Then you won't feel so far behind.
Someone tell me to go to fucking bed already.
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This is actually appropriate to the post title:
For the people who clicked through the link in 23 -- thank you, and I did eventually remember to put a link to the sample song.
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30: Sure, a lot of that. On my way out of the house now at dark-thirty to go in and finish up preparation.
What would happen, examwise, if you went into labor now?
Paper consists of a series of very short questions, written between contractions. Questions get notably shorter towards the end of the paper. Final question is simply "DRUGS?"