Bad bad blogger!

I can't believe it has been over two months since I last posted. Naughty me.

Well, here's my list of excuses:

I've been redeveloping both of my courses this semester. My windows applications development course has changed from VB, Windows Forms 2.0 and ADO.NET 2.0 to C#, WPF and the entity framework. That's a lot of new stuff for me to master. Also, my web applications development course has been upgraded to include more web design content and also to use the ASP.NET entity framework.

I've started writing not one, but two textbooks - one for each of the courses I teach. They've both got about 10 chapters each so far. I've been giving them out to the students as notes as I finish each chapter.

I've been helping to organize a conference, which turns out to me more work than I thought it was going to be.

I've been working on getting some conference papers submitted, and have more upcoming deadlines for that.

I've been invited onto the curriculum committee in my department, and we are reviewing and revising our entire curriculum, which is a lot of work

I've been taking introductory spanish classes. I've been doing social stuff, like inviting people over and going to hens nights and weddings and suchlike.

And, saving the best for last, I submitted my thesis! I handed it in to the graduate center on Thursday morning. It has now been sent out to the (anonymous) examiners, and I'll get called in for the oral examination in July. Until then, I don't have to worry about it at all!

I'm sure I'll find plenty of other things to procrastinate about now though, starting with the conference paper I have to submit in two weeks.