How’s your week going?

It’s finals week here. My brain hurts, and I’m on what is reputed to be the easier side of the student-professor divide, so I have great empathy for my students at the moment. (At least, for the ones who aren’t trying to put one over on me.)
In the last week, I have:

• Conducted the last class meeting of the term for each of my courses.
• Been presented with a pair of foosballs (because the canonical billiard balls are pricy) by my graduate seminar on causation.
• Marked a whole mess of research assignments.
• Noticed that a non-negligible number of students simply didn’t do the research assignment (despite the fact that it accounts for 15% of the final grade).
• Graded a whole mess of extra-credit assignments, while muttering to myself that my sympathy seems always to act in the direction of increasing the amount of grading I have to do.
• Written a final exam.
• Scheduled a final exam grading party with my grader extraordinaire.
• Read and commented on a pile of drafts of papers for my graduate seminar.
• Conducted 6 extra office hours.
• Agreed to become an associate director of an institue on whose governing board I already serve, with the assurance that this “promotion” will not necessitate any more work for the institute than I’m doing already.
• Transacted holiday-related commerce. (Can I just say, for situations where one is expected to come up with eight days of gifts for two children, that pretty rocks and minerals with individual “information” cards — of the sort one might find in a museum gift shop — are the best thing ever?)
• Made two trips to the post office to ship packages.

In the next 24 hours or so, I must:

• Conduct two more office hours. — DONE
• Grade many more papers.
• Photocopy the final exam I wrote (making the necessary sacrifices of cash, chocolate, and untenured faculty members to the gods of the photocopier). — DONE
• Compute presentation grades for my graduate seminar. — DONE
• Compute participation grades for all my classes.
• Administer final exams.
• Locate a good source of take-away pizza for the grading party. — DONE
• Grade final exams.
• Transact some more holiday-related commerce.
• Possibly make another trip to the post office.
• Construct a web page for a course I’ll be teaching in the spring but that I haven’t taught since Fall 2002 (at which point I wasn’t yet constructing web pages for each of my courses).

So, what’s doing with you?