It’s that time of year again when I have to fill out my annual Faculty Activities Sheet, reporting on everything I did last academic year. Technically, I should’ve done this a while back, but it always slips into the December break.<\/p>\n
This always takes much longer than it ought to, in large part because it’s hard to remember exactly when certain significant things happened, which leads to a lot of searching of my email trying to determine when various things saw print, and which of the available categories it fits in. I probably really ought to keep a running tally of my activities as the year goes along, but they tweak the form every year or two, so my attempts have always been thwarted– I end up spending a bunch of time working out how to convert from one version of the form to another.<\/p>\n
It’s also kind of annoying because the timing always means that the things I’ve done most recently aren’t part of the window that’s actually being considered, which ends at the end of August. For some reason, my interesting activities tend to cluster in September and October, meaning that I’ve got a bunch of interesting stuff to report for next year, that I will barely remember when next year’s form comes around…<\/p>\n
There is some satisfaction, of course, in seeing a big list of all the concrete things I accomplished in the past year. Even in a slow year (as last academic year was, for me), this is quite a bit of stuff. It doesn’t quite overcome the annoyance at having to do this busywork in the first place, but it helps a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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