I’m sure you all can guess why my words have not darkened the door of this here blog. I’m basically spending every waking moment reading (not yet writing). Every day this week, I’ve gotten up at 6:00, read until 7:30 with kids running around eating cereal and getting dressed. Then I go to work where…

It was quite difficult to drag myself out of bed this morning. It’s the home stretch and there’s so much to tie up before winter break begins. Finish the dissertation chapter Comment on the final papers Work with students on web zine Fix up the program for the conference I’m organizing Finish two projects I’m…

This year, I’m more thankful than I’ve been in years. The last two years we’ve traveled for Thanksgiving and this year, we’re home with no one else coming. Though it might have been nice to invite another family or two over, this will make it a nice intimate Thanksgiving. I think I’m most thankful for…

Over the weekend, we bought a new printer, inspired by my need to print some of my documents out (don’t worry, ianqui, I’m trying to keep this to a minimum). We’d been thinking about this for a while since I have a crappy inkjet and Mr. Geeky has a 15-year-old laser printer that we sold…

I’ve been reading through/sorting through the many articles I have collected in digital form. I finally realized this morning that I was having trouble keeping them straight and so I’ve decided that I’m going to print them all out and sort them. And then hopefully use many of them in the writing I’m doing this…

With the upcoming holidays, I’ve been thinking about relatives. I have quite a few of them, especially since my parents divorced, giving me two sets plus inlaws to contend with. All my relatives live far away, the nearest being ten hours away. I see my dad and stepmother quite frequently since they are willing to…

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I’m finding myself dragging a little, looking forward just a little too much to Thanksgiving break and then to Christmas break. Part of this is simply the sheer amount of work I have right now that I know will be completed by Christmas. I certainly need the break. But part of it, too, is emotional…

Lots has happened since I last posted. There was lots of catching up to do after the election and I have quite a few irons in the fire in addition to regular work, so it’s been busy. The dissertation is chugging along, slowly but surely. I’m faced with another stack of papers to comment on,…

While there are still races too close to call, here in my neck of PA, we can claim victory. Rick Santorum, out! Curt Weldon, out! Yahoo! Just as an indication of how bit a deal this was, in my precinct, which normally votes 2 to 1 Republican, went democratic in every race. We had about…