{"id":1082,"date":"2007-09-29T22:02:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2007-09-29T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T02:02:34","slug":"if-i-had-a-million-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"If I had a million hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My life this week brings the Barenaked Ladies song to mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watching nervously over the state budget situation and engaging in various tasks around that<\/li>\n<li>Finishing and submitting my promotion portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Assigning and circulating manuscripts for <a href=\"http:\/\/epaa.asu.edu\">Education Policy Analysis Archives<\/a>&#8230; and receiving a bunch of yes and no responses that require some individual attention (without time for that yet)<\/li>\n<li>Teaching for three classes (two in-person, one on-line)<\/li>\n<li>Meeting with students I&#8217;m advising<\/li>\n<li>Preparing for a meeting that was canceled<\/li>\n<li>Getting called by a <em>St. Pete Times<\/em> reporter about NAEP results (getting the last word in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2007\/09\/26\/State\/Florida_students__tes.shtml\">the article<\/a>&nbsp;was a surprise; I think the lesson is that I&#8217;m more likely to get a soundbite quoted if&nbsp;I make the reporter laugh).<\/li>\n<li>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.usforacle.com\/media\/storage\/paper880\/news\/2007\/09\/26\/News\/University.Seeks.To.Add.Security.Officers-2992887.shtml\">an article about USF&#8217;s outsourcing some security operations<\/a>&nbsp;Wednesday, I was very alarmed but had my long teaching day, so didn&#8217;t get a chance to respond until late Wednesday night&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.usforacle.com\/media\/storage\/paper880\/news\/2007\/09\/28\/Opinion\/Guest.Voices-2999787.shtml\">the column<\/a> was printed Friday. (Of the two grammatical errors I spotted, one was my fault, while the other was introduced by the student editors. No, you don&#8217;t hear from me which was which: I&#8217;m responsible for it all.)<\/li>\n<li>On Thursday, driving my son to his martial-arts class, driving my daughter to a &#8220;college night&#8221; at her high school, driving myself to Orlando for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feaweb.org\">Florida Education Association<\/a> delegate assembly, and possibly driving myself nuts.<\/li>\n<li>Being at the delegate assembly yesterday and today, doing some work simultaneously, talking with a student on the drive home, and spending time with my family this afternoon and evening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How&#8217;s your week been? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life this week brings the Barenaked Ladies song to mind: Watching nervously over the state budget situation and engaging in various tasks around that Finishing and submitting my promotion portfolio Assigning and circulating manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives&#8230; and receiving a bunch of yes and no responses that require some individual attention (without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-hs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}