Shaken, not all stirred up

It’s one of those weeks in academia:

• schedules for 2010-11 are due
• book orders for next quarter are due
• essays need to graded and returned
• that essay I promised to write a few months ago is due
• references still need to be written
• requests for sabbaticals are due shortly
• students’ grandmothers are dying left and right
• H1N1 has taken over our town
• colleagues are walking around sleeplessly and no one has cleaned the office coffee pot in days
• I’m watching Dexter to relax at night, and, despite that, I had a nightmare about something even weirder: Sarah Palin was chasing me
• did I or did I not buy my plane tickets for the MLA?
• and the house is a wreck and not at all ready for Turkey day

Luckily, NPR has an app for all of that: a ginger martini recipe.