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August 27, 2007

First Day's Index, Fall Semester 2007

  • Numbers of courses taught as of 5:24 PM: 2
  • Number of courses left to teach: 1
  • Total number of students: 54
  • Number of composition sections: 2
  • Number of composition sections that are honors composition: 1
  • Number of grades changed from previous semesters: 2
  • Number of grades changed because I forgot the deadline for submitting summer grades (oops): 1
  • Number of exasperated e-mails from Registration & Records, pointing out the above: 1
  • Number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books lugged from my house for tonight's intro to grad studies course: 4 + 1 tract
  • Number of MA theses still hanging over my head, thanks to revisions: 2
  • Number of proposals I need to write sometime in the next two weeks: 3
  • Number of articles for which I am awaiting proof: 1
  • Number of windows in the basement classroom I just left: 0
  • Number of chairs available to the professor in that classroom: 0
  • Number of students forced to sit with their backs to the professor: 6
  • Number of additional days I hope to spend in that classroom: 0
  • Number of leftover bite-sized chocolate cupcakes from yesterday's department picnic  consumed this afternoon: 2
  • Number of calories in those cupcakes, thanks to the Laws of Academic Calories: 0
  • Number of books involving cannibalism on the honors comp syllabus: 3
  • Number of microwaves in the English department: 1
  • Number of broken microwaves in the English department: 1
  • Number of books I still need to shelve: approximately 500

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