This Could Be Tricky

Next week is finals week. I'm scheduled to give my calculus final Monday afternoon; the geometry take-homes are due on Tuesday; the statistics final is Thursday morning; and I'll be winging my way west Friday morning. Grades have to be in by noon the following Monday, but I'll post them Thursday afternoon.

That's if everything goes according to plan. Unfortunately, winter seems to be settling in, and if the weather is bad enough on Monday or Thursday to force the university to close, any finals from that day will be postponed to Friday or later.

I've missed two straight family get-togethers. (Err... no, it's three; I arrived too late the year before.) I could eat the airfare and stay to take care of the finals, but... no. Not again.

I can see a way of getting everything done - a kludgy, Rube Goldbergian way - but there are too many places where it could go wrong. (It involves finding a proctor, overnight mail, e-mailing myself an Excel file, and accessing the grade-posting software at long range. Any of these steps could prove impossible to execute, for one reason or another.)

:crosses fingers: