It occurs to me that if I were a Good Doctoral Student, I would have a schedule this summer. Last summer I made a point of never even setting the alarm, but I don’t think that’s going to be an option this time around.

If I were Good, I would get up Early and hustle over to the Minneapolis campus to Manage the Project during the morning in the Cube With the Lovely View*. Then I would take myself down the street to the Old Periodicals Room — the one with the huge windows, oak racks along the walls, wifi, convenient outlets, and long, lamp-lit tables — and study for exams and write during the afternoon. Then I would go work out at the Huge Humongous Really Deluxe World-Class Athletic Center**. And then I would draw a line in the sand between my work day and my home life, go home, and fiddle around in the evenings.

All of this, I’m convinced, would make me a model of scholarly efficiency. Um-hmmm.

There is other scheduling as well:
Second Half of May: Kennedy-Ward Annual Center-Sectional Tour
May 26-29: RSA
August: Exams

At least I’ll be kept out of trouble.

*As opposed to my department office, which has no view whatsoever. And my seven years at Evil Empire were spent in a building that had no windows at all, not even in the Poobah Offices. So I’m giddy over the window, which looks across the street to the McNamara Center. I’ve never been sure what I think about the architecture, but dude! I can see the sky!
**Can you tell I’m trying hard to talk myself into this?