It's remarkable how as faculty winter break is a lot less a vacation than it was as a student, even as a grad student who did little but teach. Last winter was busy, but this winter is quite loony.

Although I collected final papers yesterday (many of which are amazing, by the way), I will be on campus more in the next week and a half than I would on avergae in the same span during the school year.

Between committees, honor board hearings, lunches with colleagues with whom you want to hammer out a reading list, and professional development workshops, December is turning into a very busy time indeed. I was hoping to get some seriouis writing done, and now it looks like I'm going to have to fight a bit more actively to get that time.