Deadlines

This week seems to have been full of deadlines (well, this includes arranging deadlines too). Generally, I subscribe to Douglas Adams's approval of deadlines - he claimed to love the whooshing noise they made as they went by. However, some are harder to dismiss like the marking deadline for a module I'm coordinating for a colleague who's in Australia -- nearly 200 assignments to moderate takes time.
It's also been the deadline for 3rd year students to submit their dissertations - so more marking.

Then my publishers have finally put their foot down and demanded a final date for the text of the book (we agreed on July) - they've been really tolerant until now. [They have produced a chapter as it will look in the final text -- and I think it looks pretty good!]

At least it's the end of term today!