Finally Finished

So I turned in final grades yesterday, meaning that I'm essentially done with the semester. My department wants a written assessment report of what students learned, but other than that, I'm done.

It's been an interesting finish to the year. Am I over committed? I've been blaming my busy-ness on having students come by for advising, which hasn't happened much until this year. But that has slowed to a trickle since Spring registration. And reading through proposals took a decent amount of time, but I feel more behind that I could possibly blame on that. All I know is that it's been weeks since I felt like I had a week where I got everything done that I wanted to. That may be normal for some, but I am typically able to plan out how much I can get done and actually do it. I had planned on having four things under review by the end of this week. I will have one, and two others are very close. The problem, of course, is that January brings challenges of its own (new course prep, getting ready for NCA submissions, etc.). I really wanted to have these things off the plate.