No, I'm not cracking under the pressure

Lots to do this week. With NCA just a few days away, and Thanksgiving shortly after that, the next couple of days are critical. I need to finish a draft of that grant proposal and send it to a few people to look at. I need to decide today on which textbook(s) to use in my new prep next year. I need to make substantial progress in my pre-tenure portfolio. There was a workshop last week where assistant professors who had just gone through pretenure gave information and members of the rank, tenure, and promotion committee responded to that information and to questions. I don't know that I got that much new information, but it definitely served to emphasize that my pretenure portfolio is not just a collection of stuff, but a rhetorical presentation of myself. They encouraged proactive framing with short descriptions of each class that I teach and introductions for each section.

My university also pays a small stipend to faculty who volunteer to grade writing portfolios that students submit during their junior year, and I need to get started on that. It's part of my university's efforts to make sure graduates can put sentences together coherently. And a few odds and ends before I leave town. Lots to do.