The main focus of my summer has to be my research proposal. Considering I had to change gears and go in a different direction than I had been working towards for the past year, I have a great deal of catching up to do. I need to keep this as my priority when it comes to time.
The other large part of time will be getting the cabin ready between guests. Our summer rental is nearly completely booked for the summer already. Thankfully, there are several longer bookings, but there are plenty of quick changeovers as well.
I have several weeks where I will be gone. The first one coming up is the AP World History Reading in Kansas City. I will be back for a week before heading out for Connor's week-long summer camp in Juneau. I will then have two weeks off before Rowen's week-long summer camp north of Anchorage.
The month of July also has me on the hook for jury duty. Hopefully, that won't take up too much time. More importantly, I hope that they noted the note about my being unavailable for the week of Rowen's camp (I offered to be available for the first week in August to compensate).
Additionally, I need to spend time planning for the courses that I'm currently scheduled to teach next year. A couple of us (social studies teachers) agreed on a date to meet and hash out U.S. History (which I am currently not scheduled to teach, but was the only one teaching it this year). I want to tie it a bit closer to English 11 which is U.S. literature focused (and which I am also not scheduled to teach). I need to work on building AP World as not only am I teaching it again, but they are changing its structure ... again ... as they have every year for the past four years.
Janelle and I would also like to take the boys out on more outdoors excursions (aside from just the summer camps). I even bought new hiking boots in anticipation. I look forward to breaking them in.
Finally, I still plan on holding the Marvel Movie Mini-Marathons every Wednesday that I am home this summer. As we are merging schools, I sent out invitations to all staff members of both schools (well beyond the capacity of my house, let alone living room). I received some very positive responses, some very polite refusals, and a LOT of silence. I think it will be a blast!
Wow. I'm tired just writing that out.