Mid-Summer Check In

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Is it really the middle the summer of already?? Well, by official seasons it isn't since we only had the June Solstice nine days ago, but Miami had graduation on Mother's Day weekend (May 11-12), which was seven weeks ago. We start classes again in eight weeks, so we're just about half way through summer break. This year is a little longer because of the calendar change happening next year- we are adding a winter term during January and shortening each semester by a week or two. We start classes about a week later in August than we have been and finish about a week later in May (hooray for no more final exam grading on Mother's Day!!!) That means this summer probably has an extra week (with the early spring graduation + late fall start date). Wow, that makes me feel better, actually! I've fallen deep into my usual summer wanderings, feeling like I have no focus- especially since I spent the last two weeks around downtown Cincinnati while my daughter did a theater camp at the Aronoff Center. It was fun- like a mini-vacation since I visited Eden Park, Over-the-Rhine, Findlay Market, Cincinnati Art Museum, Krohn Conservatory, walked across the Roebling Suspension Bridge, ran errands in Hyde Park and Kenwood. We ate lunch out every day after she got out of camp. I'm a little sad to be back in Oxford full time, although it was a lot of driving!
Some of the pictures I took of the Roebling Suspension Bridge. It connects Cincinnati, Ohio with Covington, Kentucky across the Ohio River. When it opened in 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world!

I'll have to set up a schedule for myself this week to get back into work-mode. I do feel better knowing I have so much time left, though! I have a few reviews to do and an article to read for an upcoming meeting, research to finish for a fall conference, and some prep for fall classes. My husband is still out of the country doing field work, but he'll be home in less than three weeks!

I've grown weary of Facebook for many reasons, but still love social media, so I've joined a few new sites. I'm also on LinkedIn, but don't use it very much.

What social media sites do you use for work- or teaching-related things? 

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