{"id":162,"date":"2002-08-21T00:04:55","date_gmt":"2002-08-21T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=162"},"modified":"2011-06-26T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T00:30:18","slug":"overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the middle of the week from Heck (as <cite>Dilbert<\/cite> would put it). Yesterday, I began listing my tasks for the week and squeezed in everything I had to do, barely &#8230; and then realized there were two <strong>huge<\/strong> projects (finishing a chapter and working with a set of data I should&#39;ve had in my hands a month ago and <em>maybe<\/em> received properly yesterday) I hadn&#39;t scheduled. So I was in my office tonight getting stuff done for one class that meets for the first time on Saturday afternoon. I got back home at 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Also tonight, my union, the <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.usf.edu\/~uff\">USF chapter of the United Faculty of Florida<\/a>, found out that that our campus president has called a press conference tomorrow at 10 a.m., probably to announce that she is firing <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.usf.edu\/~uff\/AlArian\">Sami Al-Arian<\/a>. I&#39;ll be at a new-faculty orientation to press the flesh from 8:30-10:30, so I blessedly have an excuse to avoid the event itself, though I&#39;ll probably go back to my office passing through the administration building. I will be in a suit and wouldn&#39;t mind showing my face just to document that a number of faculty oppose the firing&mdash;or, on the unlikely chance that Dr. Genshaft has decided not to fire Al-Arian, to show some magnanimity and defend her from the inevitable carping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the middle of the week from Heck (as Dilbert would put it). Yesterday, I began listing my tasks for the week and squeezed in everything I had to do, barely &#8230; and then realized there were two huge projects (finishing a chapter and working with a set of data I should&#39;ve had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[8,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-the-academic-life","category-union"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sag0MB-overload","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}