{"id":69,"date":"2015-08-10T19:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/?p=69"},"modified":"2015-08-10T19:18:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:18:28","slug":"69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/2015\/08\/10\/69\/","title":{"rendered":"It is that time of year again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happens to all of us in academia-land, I think. \u00a0As summer dwindles and (in my case) the peaches start to ripen I know that very soon my free time will be\u00a0over. \u00a0School is about to start&#8230;but it starts for faculty a lot earlier than it does for students. \u00a0Courses must be planned or tweaked&#8230;the new textbook should be perused&#8230;and the closed-toed shoes must be dug out from under the bed. \u00a0Most 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).<\/p>\n<p>Today saw me perched at my local grocery store food court. \u00a0I like to set up my satellite office there because nobody ever talks to me. \u00a0I suspect the salad bar guy occasionally wonders who this weirdo is with her books and laptop but I don&#8217;t mind&#8230;at least he doesn&#8217;t talk to me. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0I am procrastinating doing either of them by creating this blog post, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>But the syllabi won&#8217;t be getting done on their own so I will now flip a coin to see which to work on first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens to all of us in academia-land, I think. \u00a0As summer dwindles and (in my case) the peaches start to ripen I know that very soon my free time will be\u00a0over. \u00a0School is about to start&#8230;but it starts for faculty a lot earlier than it does for students. \u00a0Courses must be planned or tweaked&#8230;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}