It happens to all of us in academia-land, I think.  As summer dwindles and (in my case) the peaches start to ripen I know that very soon my free time will be over.  School is about to start…but it starts for faculty a lot earlier than it does for students.  Courses must be planned or tweaked…the new textbook should be perused…and the closed-toed shoes must be dug out from under the bed.  Most of us DO work in the summer, some teaching summer classes, etc., but the work I am talking about happens in my pajamas or at my local coffee shop (rarely do I mix the two, by the way).

Today saw me perched at my local grocery store food court.  I like to set up my satellite office there because nobody ever talks to me.  I suspect the salad bar guy occasionally wonders who this weirdo is with her books and laptop but I don’t mind…at least he doesn’t talk to me.  I met up with a research collaborator (Caitlin Faas Bond) and commiserated about how little time we had yet to get the prep work done for classes.  I had created my History and Systems of Psychology syllabus earlier in the summer, but that still leaves Research Methods II and the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality to plan.  I am procrastinating doing either of them by creating this blog post, by the way.

But the syllabi won’t be getting done on their own so I will now flip a coin to see which to work on first…