Well, while I was reading about your trips to Maine and Japan and the lounging on the deck and the trailing the fingers in the water while you canoed across the Chain O'Lakes, I was just hitting midterms in the Spring quarter and y'all made me feel like poo. So for those of you gearing up to start the fall semester next week, tearing apart your syllabi and tearing out your hair, I would just like to announce:
I STILL HAVE FIVE MORE WEEKS OF SUMMER!Love and kisses!
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Like (some of) your UK colleagues then!
I am a lawyer, not an academic, and your entire post makes me want to burst into tears. You mean to tell me you get time for actual vacations? Of that, madam, I am jealous in the extreme.
Enjoy the next five weeks.
See... that really wasn't necessary!
I won't be dealing with students at all this year... nayh... nayh... nayh... nayh... nayh...
I'm on a self-imposed sabbatical. I spent the summer helping my mother take care of my terminally ill father who died two weeks ago. So, I decided I just couldn't deal with students. I turned down an offered adjunct position. I will spend the year finishing my dissertation, writing a conference paper that will be due in January, getting those two articles I've been working on for much too long out for review, and putting myself back on the tenure track job market--but I WILL NOT DEAL WITH STUDENTS (or their parents).
I vow this time around on the job market to not even look at a SLAC that does not have a most selective admissions rating. The others are simply glorified babysitting services for students with more money than brains.
Anonymous lawyer, it depends. Most of the lecturers I know are using their 'holidays/leave' to do research/go to conferences that they wouldn't otherwise be allowed to go to (except for those who purely teach).
Enjoy! (And think of us if you need an excuse to sleep in or something.)
Your job sounds like a perfect cover for an islamofascist sleeper cell.
I'm a alerting the community.
since becoming an adult i've had only one actual vacation, for about ten days to oregon of all places over new years. that was five years ago.
so anyone on vacation or on summer break or whatever? i hate you.
I'm 12 month faculty, so I don't even get summers off. On the other hand, I'm a librarian and don't have to grade, so that's a win. I do miss the quarter system so much, though. All my own schooling and everywhere I've worked before has been quarters, so semesters just feel wrong. Enjoy September!
I still [heart] you, AP, even if you're still enjoying Summer Term.
[ambles off to work on syllabi]
Perhaps we grow up too pampered with free summers and long winter/spring breaks?
That aside, "Waaahh! No fair!" B2S this coming Monday. ;_;
The reason academics get so much vacation is that we generally only get paid for nine months of work! Of course, if you all get a 12 month salary, too bad, 'cause you only get a couple of weeks of vacation. Universities assume we only work nine months, so we only get paid for nine months. If we have grants or an administrative position, we can take "summer salary," otherwise, no paycheck.
Oh, I am celebrating my maternity leave like you would not believe.
No students until January '08!
Yeah, but by the time the rest of us have succumbed to the numbness of defeat (and bourbon - sweet, sweet bourbon), you'll just be getting started on the Deep Hurting.
Somehow, this doesn't compensate for the spring thing. I mean, I feel bad in the spring when semesters are over and the abomination that is quarters goes on and on, yet about now I'm stressed about the rapid approach of fall (only five weeks).
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