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Classes are drawing to an end, and as usual I'm getting slightly lumpy-throaty. While many look forward to the end of teaching, I don't. Maybe if I were a scientist or an archaeologist, I'd be looking forward to summer to get some "real work" done, but teaching is my "real work" - any research I do is kind of a hobby. After teaching finishes, there's just grading and meetings and planning and preparation until the middle of July, with just a conference to alleviate the boredom. (Oh yes, and upgrading Moodle - that should be fun.) The only reason I don't volunteer for summer school is that it comes on top of all meetings and planning and whatnot, not instead of it.