Summertime in Winter

Well, as of today, I am finished with the fall semester in which I taught five classes on four campuses for three colleges. My daily living pretty much consisted exclusively of a routine of preparing to teach, teaching, grading, online tutoring, and driving (lots and lots of driving)--rinse and repeat for 3 and a half months. Now that I'm done, I'm not quite sure what to do with myself. It feels weird knowing that I don't have to grade any papers tonight nor do I have to prepare for a class tomorrow.

I was kind of expecting disaster to occur this semester, but I managed to keep up with all of my grading responsibilities. Grading eats up most of my time. What I did have to sacrifice, though, was my job search. Now that I've got some free time, I should be able to send off a bunch of applications, and I'll be able to keep up with that in the spring.

I'd like to think that I have a lot of time to rest, but the spring semester begins in the middle of January. Luckily, I'll only have three classes next semester, so it won't be nearly as hectic. Also helpful is that the classes that I'm teaching were all classes that I taught last semester, so much of the work that I put into planning assignments and lesson plans won't need to be repeated this next semester. I'll change a few things, as I always do, but most the syllabi will remain the same.