after 8 days in the sun in Palm Desert, with temperatures around 75-78F in the arvo, followed by 5 days in sunny Phoenix (thanks Desert_dude and irish_maple_syrup_mimi !! 
) now back home in El Paso. Pretty cold (well, that’s relative anyway)…
waiting for the next holidays!
leaving just in time, rain Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun
wanted to ride Palomar a couple times Sunday
damn!
The holidays aren’t over until January 2nd, 2005, you godless French communist (or at least, socialist) ;-))
This is my favorite time of year, despite the Michigan weather that I’m suffering in for the next week.
Antoine Guerre
aren’t you a college prof? quit whining! the new semester hasn’t even started yet!
yeah…college professors teach 6hrs a week and have 15 weeks of holidays per year…
you don’t seem to know much about the job…
I thought you got ten weeks and two weeks to surf on Slowtwitch.
yeah right…
funny why everyone thinks a college prof. has plenty of time to do stuff etc.
teaching (at least in a research institution) is a small part of the job…takes 6hrs a week + class prep. and a bit of grading and office hours. maybe 12hrs a week.
add to that doing research, writing papers, getting external funding to get the 3 extra months (research univ. pay over 9 months and you need to get grants during the year to pay your last 3 summer months…so no holidays there sorry…)…that puts it around 60hrs a week.
These holidays were the first in 4 years where I didn’t work at all. real holidays. actually I did work during the first week.
the advtange though is that you have a lot of freedom to organize your training or whatever else you have to do.
It’s only the third day of Christmas. There are still nine more to come before the holiday is over.
geez, Francois, I was only joking! I have no idea what your job is like. OTH, my sister works for a University and she gets two weeks off at this time of year, in addition to vacation time. But she’s not a prof.
The holidays aren’t over until January 2nd, 2005, you godless French communist (or at least, socialist) ;-))
This is my favorite time of year, despite the Michigan weather that I’m suffering in for the next week.
Antoine Guerre
Back to work on the 5th of Jan for me. And it looks as if summer has popped in!!! :))))
teaching (at least in a research institution) is a small part of the job…
They do research down in Texas? What, to find a smoother-tasting formula for Lone Star Beer? ;-))
Antoine Guerre