A Busy Summer

It seems that life for a professor should slow down a little in the summer. This should be especially true for a professor who decides not to participate in the Summer Rep production this summer: Annie. You'd think! Well, somehow I've found myself on the search committee for a new theater professor, on the Take It To Town steering committee, a participant in the church's Lunch Bunch program at the housing project, on the planning committee for next fall's faculty retreat, on Blackburn's PR Advisory Committee, still involved in Summer Rep as Treasurer, and chief contract writer and budget master for Annie, The Boardinghouse (geriatric), Bully (David Sollish's farewll one-man show about TR), and an auditionee for this year's Nutcracker. Oh, yeah, and rewriting Pastor Charlotte Poetschner's contract at church, and updating the church by-laws. And that's not counting my work as an actual professor. I'm switching to a new text book for General Chemistry next year using the 'atoms first' approach, so I need to do some reading and rewriting. I'd also like to inventory and reorganize the stockrooms. I've also read some interesting books and watched a couple of good TV shows. But more about that later.