One of the great perks of being an academic is getting the summers “off” — ostensibly the summer is a time to focus on research and projects too time-consuming to consider during the school year. Also, there’s travelling. Here’re my itineraries for recent summers, just for the archives.

2007—2008

• September 21—22, Ithaca NY for the Route 81 Conference Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
• October 6—7, New Brunswick NJ for the AMS Regional Meeting and Special Session in Commutative Algebra
• December—January, Washington DC and Indianapolis to see family
• January 5—9, San Diego for the Joint Meetings
• March 8—22, Yokohama Japan for the international conference
• May 11—22, Lincoln NE for Luchofest
• July 31—August 12, Ann Arbor MI for Hochsterfest and then Saugatuck MI to visit family

Spring/Summer 2007:

• January 4—9, New Orleans for the Joint Meetings
• February 8—10, Lawrence KS for a Colloquium at KU.
• March 29—31, Atlanta GA for a Colloquium at GSU
• April 28 — May 5, MSRI in Berkeley for Advances in Algebra and Geometry (tentative)
• July 5—11, Buşteni, Romania for Homological and Combinatorial Aspects of Commutative Algebra (I cancelled)

My time was pretty much spoken for most of the summer.

Fall semester 2006:

• August 19—25, Madrid Spain for the ICM
• September 20—24, Guanajuato Mexico for the joint CMS/SMM meeting
• October 14—19, Banff Canada for workshop on Syzygies and Hilbert Functions at BIRS (I cancelled)
• November 4—5, Lawrence Kansas for KUMUNU VII (I cancelled)
• November 18—19, Kent OH for KRAW
• December 9—11, Toronto Canada for the CMS Winter meeting (CA and AG Session)

Summer 2006:

• May 12—17, Estes Park CO for Bottlesmashing XI
• May 18—20, Salt Lake City UT for Paul Roberts Fest
• May 21—28, Luminy France for CIRM workshop on Commutative Algebra and Interactions with Algebraic Geometry
• May 28—June 6, SYR
• June 7—13, St. Peter MN
• June 14—18, Chicago IL for the wedding
• June 19—26, Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora (Villa Mahana)
• June 27—July 3, Chicago IL
• July 4—7, St. Peter MN
• July 7—30, SYR
• July 30—August 4, Toronto ON for the Workshop on computational and combinatorial commutative algebra
• August 5—20, SYR
• August 21—26, Madrid Spain for the ICM
• classes start on August 27.

Summer 2005:

• May 6—14, Lincoln NE and Estes Park CO
• May 14—17, SYR
• May 18—22, Toronto ON
• May 23—30, SYR
• May 31—June 6, Portland OR
• June 7—18, SYR
• June 19—July 1, Salt Lake City UT
• July 2—August 4, SYR (“the blessed free month”)
• July 27—August 2, Estes Park for Bottle-Smashing X
• August 5—10, Adirondacks
• August 11—28, SYR
• August 29, classes started

(Summary: 115 days, of which I slept in my own bed 75 nights. 65% ain’t all bad, but it ain’t all good neither.)