The Great Purge of 2016

Here's proof that the end of this crazy semester, the craziest season in my life for quite some time, is almost here.

I present to you The Great Purge of 2016. In between grading papers (always, the grading) this morning, I have slowly gone through this hellacious mess:

This means that I have finally arrived at a point of mental breathing room. I have effectively been able to ignore this mess for the last three months because I just haven't had the psychological or intellectual bandwidth to make it a priority.

Now, though, all that remains is a bit of school and research stuff, and the start of my summer reading list. In between the grading I'm also reading for fun. I spent Friday and about half of yesterday writing the final theory papers of the semester (save the last big one for next week) and I'm so, soooooo happy to report that my weekly readings for that class are done and done. As in, stick a fork in me.