{"id":120,"date":"2006-12-11T23:58:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T07:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/almost-there\/"},"modified":"2006-12-12T09:04:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T17:04:51","slug":"almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost&#8230; there&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long semester.  I&#8217;m teaching two courses and trying to figure out how to be undergrad chair.  Really, it made Kat being away less of an issue: I wouldn&#8217;t have had much time to do anything anyway.  I&#8217;m guessing I averaged around 60 hours per week this semester.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished marking the 470 projects.  They were bimodal, as the class has been all semester.  Apparently, my 120 exams are marked and I&#8217;ll get them tomorrow morning.  With some luck, all the final grades will be done tomorrow.  Realistically, Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The CS Xmas party is tomorrow afternoon.  Hopefully it will go well: as the chair of the Social committee, I had a hand in it.  It pretty much followed Greg&#8217;s event organizing pattern: phone a restaurant and tell them about 100 people are coming, ask grad students to organize entertainment, done.<\/p>\n<p>Update 12\/12: I just approved my first final grades (one of the duties of the undergrad chair).  That was exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long semester. I&#8217;m teaching two courses and trying to figure out how to be undergrad chair. Really, it made Kat being away less of an issue: I wouldn&#8217;t have had much time to do anything anyway. I&#8217;m guessing I averaged around 60 hours per week this semester. I just finished marking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}