Handed it in

So I realized: That portfolio thing? The thing that's eaten your life for the past month, that's caused you to have several private meltdowns in your office or home?

It's due tomorrow.

So, in the spirit of Always Having Things In Before The Deadline, I took it down to my departmental office. Handed it to my chair. Asked her if that was all I had to do.

"Yes." she said.

"It seems rather anti-climactic." I remarked. Seeing, as I said, that this had eaten my life for a month. She kind of shrugged and said, "I know, that's how it is."

(That's actually how a lot of academia is. You work your tail off for a long period of time, you worry and sweat and lose sleep, and then when the whatever-it-is is done, it's just like...is that all there is to it?)

I still lack a lost-in-the-mail letter of recommendation and one of my faculty development worksheets (which never got returned from the dean's office) but there's still the option to add them in if and when they show up.