The semester is finally OVER! + RBOC

Thursday last week was my last teaching day. Which means that the semester is finally OVER!!!!! Whhoo hoooo!!!

My students have their finals only in the last week of April and I resume teaching for the month of May at Toxic U. Today I have to check with Administrator if there is a slight chance to switch for a better scheduled class (instead than 4 nights a week for 1 month it will be 2 nights a week for 2 months). I truly hope this will be the case.

Over the weekend I gave my conference at BigCongress and it went extremely well. My panel was great, I met very interesting colleagues and it was a fun experience.

This coming week the Departmental Meeting from Hell will take place. It will be the time when the Department will decide about its hiring priorities for the next 3 years. I will be there and listening because I will have to make up my mind and decide what to do. Even if until June I won't know what I might be able to teach at Toxic U, so I am in no rush. It's only after that moment I will be able to have a clearer picture of what is going on here and there.

For now, I will have to:

-clean my desk because it looks like a post-atomic spectacle

-clean, file and store all the material and stuff related to this academic year

-have a look at the new manual for the summer course, and finalize it

-write a post-doc application (yes, there is one that came up and I will give it a try, just to hear comments on my project)

-prepare May Conference

-start writing a Research Proposal a bit more elaborated and plan a book

-read, read, read

-exercise, exercise and exercise (because the Winter semester always leave a couple of pounds, damn it!)

-enjoy free weekends (this is my goal for the summer, I do not want to work on weekends!)