In working on this grant, I have come face to face with the fear of technology among professors. At a small liberal arts college, I had assumed this was rampant, but seeing it in the flesh is quite fascinating. Some background. I am an abd. My primary field was Early Modern Literature, but I was…

Seriously. I got up at 6:35 this morning, but I couldn’t bear to write. I think, like profgrrrl, I work in bursts. Plus, I was downright tired. I think I can still make my goal of 15 pages this week, perhaps tonight and tomorrow. I wrote 27 pages one week, so I know I can…

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Yeah, I ignored it. I watched my Tivo’d Amazing Race. Thankfully Bitch Ph.D. didn’t ignore it, and what she says sums up my reasons for not watching it. I feel completely powerless. And not just because the dems lost the election and now we have Bush again (that should be enough, but there’s more). I…

Total pages this week: 3 Running total: 3 I managed it! I didn’t really want to get out of bed this morning. I was all warm and cozy, but coffee was waiting for me and so I dragged myself out and down the stairs. I re-read the previous page and made some minor edits. I…

Well, here I am again, feeling too tired to write. I might still do it, but as of right now, I’m thinking I’m going to get up in the morning and do it. I was thinking about this yesterday. If I just got up 1/2 hour early, I’d have an hour before everyone else rouses…

Call me selfish, but I really don’t like getting the kids off to school in the morning. Somehow, I am the one responsible for getting everyone going, including Mr. Geeky. I’ve grown to resent it. None of us are morning people, so you can imagine what a daunting task this is. I much prefer to…

Total pages this week: 1 Running total: 1 Today, I did the following: -Finished redesigning a site–about 100 pages altogether–which entailed doing some screenshots, resizing and figuring out some css (I’m still bad at css). -sent emails to lots and lots of people about various projects that I’m working on (which means responses will be…

Total pages written this week: 1 Running total: 1 I am struggling to keep up at work. It is a good and a bad thing. The fact that I’m struggling actually means that I’m doing a key part of my job and people are starting to come to me for projects and help. However, I’m…