I decided not to write this morning. I’ve been writing every morning since last Friday. That’s 6 days in a row. So I think I deserved some time off for good behavior. Plus, I’m just downright exhausted and don’t think I could think straight. I spent a good deal of last night tweaking the presentation–almost…

I’m sure everyone is feeling similar. I’m not grading or anything, but I’m working on a presentation and organizing a program during the day and writing the dissertation in the early morning and reading for the dissertation at night. I should have a draft by this weekend that I’m going to have someone read. The…

Since I’m finishing my Ph.D. (hopefully) and have now taught a class and am teaching another in the fall, people often ask me if I’m planning to slide back into full-time teaching. I’ve definitely thought about it, but I think I like where I am, even with its frustrations. The one attractive thing about teaching…

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I took the day off from work today. Midway through yesterday, I was feeling tired. I was emotionally drained, intellectually drained, just drained. I needed a day where I didn’t have to do anything, where there were no emails to answer or things to schedule. I got up this morning and spent two hours writing.…

This morning I stepped in dog crap. I don’t have a dog. There’s a city ordinance dictating that one must clean up after one’s dog. I drove all the way to work enveloped by the smell of dog poop, thinking that people were just doing an awful lot of landscaping. When I was still smelling…

Such good suggestions from everyone about my class. It’s been officially approved, so I’m plowing ahead. When I was a grad student, I would have walked down the hall until I got to an office filled with other grad students and started bouncing ideas off of them for my class. With the web, I don’t…

I am rewarding my 5 pages of crap with some video game playing. What sucks is I think I said everything I have to say in those 5 pages. I know, hard to believe. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

Realizing you have two weeks to prepare a presentation. Thank FSM! Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

I’m planning to teach again in the fall. The program I teach for is our writing program. Faculty from various disciplines teach in this program (though it is usually heavy on English and Humanities profs). They are encouraged to come up with topics in their discipline that would appeal to a broad audience. Last year,…