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I promised y’all photos from San Antonio.  Alas, I got back to Philly over a week ago, and no photos.

San Antonio was beautiful–warm, sunny, and professionally rewarding.  Unfortunately, my trip to San Antonio was also the calm before a completely unexpected disaster of a storm.  I’m in over my head right now, and I think […]

… ’cause I’m leaving town tomorrow for a conference and am frantically trying to finish my conference paper (I know, I know. But this one totally snuck up on me!).
Yeah. So I’m leaving tomorrow for a conference in San Antonio. Things have been stressful (and grumpy) lately, and I thought that it […]

I had a dream the other day that I was done with my dissertation.  I was at graduation, walking down the pedestrian walk-way at my school in a haze of sunshine.  The only lasting impression from this dream that was able to I carry with me into waking was a sense of overwhelming elation, of […]

Happy [belated] New Year to you all.
It’s strange, I’ve been thinking so much about posting lately — constructing posts in my head during the brisk hour-long walk home from school, while in the shower, while making dinner — that I forget I haven’t actually posted them. It’s a shame; I’ve had a lot to […]

1. I am not a quitter. But when it comes to daily/weekly/monthly/yearly commitments, and when it comes to personal challenges, I think I’ve done my fair share. And so, it is with heavy heart, but not a small amount of relief, that I admit defeat when it comes to 365. I am […]

It’s hard for me these days not to think of Thursday as “the end.” I teach for the last time each week on Thursday. I have four days before I have to teach again, four days with no prep, no need to be on campus, no hard-and-fast deadlines. I constantly need to […]

… but i’ve been drowning a little.  I haven’t blogged in forever.  I’m behind on bloglines.  I’ve stopped commenting on the blogs I do manage to read.  I haven’t gotten more than 6 hours of sleep at night in over a week.  I’m falling into the pit of mid-semester.
I’m pulling myself out of it and […]

 
Grade a paper, knit a row.  Grade a paper, knit a row.   If it keeps going at this rate, I’ll never finish (the sock, that is.  With the grading, unfortunately, I have no choice).
See you on the flip side.

Sorry for being away from the blog for so long (again).  Many things have been up in the air lately, leaving me little time for blogging.  Mostly, I’ve been scrambling to get my syllabus together for the course I’m teaching this fall.  While I’ve taught before, this is the first time I’m teaching a class […]

For the last three nights, I have woken at 5:30 in the morning, been awake for twenty minutes or so, and then fallen back asleep. In each of these instances of wakefulness, I have thought about the fact that it’s been over a week since I last blogged. Today, in a fit of […]