A few students wishing me well for a nice summer break. Just spent the morning pulling together a plan for next semester& #39;s teaching and I have nearly 80 hours of & #39;structured& #39; material to prepare by October.

This is on top of this year& #39;s ongoing workload, which includes supervision of four master& #39;s dissertations. I also have three PhD students who are coming to the end of their time in the lab and one due to submit in September.

I have about 21 clear work days with full childcare over the summer break. So I need to prep four hours of the new material per day. To me this seems like a mammoth task to deliver an & #39;acceptable& #39; level of education for the students I work with.

I& #39;ll acknowledge my immense privilege here: My teaching workload is only slightly above average for my school, I can access childcare, I& #39;m healthy, I have a decent space to work, @Lis_Lowe is amazingly supportive.