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