Thanks for your suggestions! I too have learned some coping skills over the years, such as your “quick and dirty read” trick; in fact, that’s what mode I’m in for much of the chapter summaries I’m currently trying to wade through. Most of the stuff I have piled up is fairly easy to grade, but there’s just so much of it! Out of the 4 classes I have this year, 3 of them are using new books, meaning that I’m rewriting curriculum for those 3 classes. That’s what is so time consuming; it makes it hard to keep up with everything.

Next year will be better … or that’s what I’m telling myself, anyway! 🙂