And another thing

Why oh why is it that no matter how many times I tell myself to associate each student's name with a physical characteristic, I leave the class with each name closely linked in my memory not to the corresponding face, but to where they were sitting?

Exhausted now.

Next year someone remind me not to set a deadline for conference abstracts that I am in charge of for the same day that teaching starts. And not to volunteer to format and send out the department's newsletter, well, EVER, but especially not the same day as teaching starts and conference abstracts (and excuses and pleas for extensions) are flooding in.

Going to bed.