August 1 - The "dog days" are upon us. If history is a guide, there's little but hot and humid ahead - on the one hand relieved (for the moment) by a brief hiatus in classes, but on the other intensified by the financial meltdown that threatens university programs and people alike. How "hot" it gets awaits the closing work of the Academic Planning Group and the decision of the president's cabinet on which colleagues may soon be seeking employment elsewhere. I'd take a decade's worth of Augusts to escape this kind of "heat," but, sadly, that option's not available.
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