I have a sh*tload of stuff to get done this week and for some reason I can't seem to kickstart myself after my mini vacation. I had a light breakfast and I'm on my second cup of coffee, but it's still no go. I'm going to try to read through this piece that I wrote on summer reading for the newspaper and then go and get my puppy from the kennel. After that I'll decide if I need a nap before I attempt anything else today. :-9

posted by Dr. B. 9:06 AM

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Not a whole lot of writing going on right now. After coming back from C&W I am anxious to get to work on new projects. Right now I am working on a proposal from a piece on race, literacy, and video games. So I'm reading lots of stuff and thinking so hard that my brain is frying :-)

posted by Dr. B. 11:59 AM

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I have started thinking seriously about my presentation for C&W. Teaching Maymester leaves little time for individual scholarly pursuits. C&W is two weeks away so next week will definitely be a buckle down time for me. More about the subject matter later.

posted by Dr. B. 12:17 AM

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I have been so busy with Maymester and the Reading Marathon that there has been no time for my own work. Things are calming down a bit now and I am hoping that I will at least have the chance to work on my C&W presentation which is a part of a bigger project that I am working on.

posted by Dr. B. 12:47 AM

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Spending the rest of the week prepping for the beginning of Maymester next week. It doesn't help that my allergies have flared up so badly that I have lost my voice :-(

posted by Dr. B. 10:30 AM

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Spent way too much time tonight working on the reading marathon site and blog. Ok, more on the blog and the new and improved (yeah, right) Blogger settings on all of my other blogs than on the placeholder site that I created for the reading marathon. So now it's 2:40 and I have to get up in 4 hours so that I can get to campus at a decent hour and turn in grades. I want to finish rereading all of the books for 360 this week and make sure that everything is functioning for the RM before letters get sent out later this week. I'll post more information on the RM as the great unveiling comes closer.Going to bed now, really.

posted by Dr. B. 2:36 AM

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posted by Dr. B. 5:50 AM

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I am still working, really I am!! Right now I am finishing up grades and such for this semester and prepping for Maymester which my mother calls "May Madness," the 4 week intensive summer course in gender and literature. This has, of course, put my own writing on hold. In return for doing "May Madness" this year I have promised myself that I will ONLY do my work from mid-June to mid-August, and I'm sticking to it. I am feeling guilty for turning down requests for directed studies this summer, but in the end I have gotta get my own work done, right??

posted by Dr. B. 3:18 PM

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Yesterday's tasks carry over to today:

1. Read diss chapters and formulate questions for defense.

All while preparing for a visit from the maternal unit. :-)

posted by Dr. B. 12:43 PM

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My to do list is ever growing. I have a ton of work to do this week (including everything that I could do next week) because my mother is coming to visit for a week. That will put a stop to absolutely all scholarly pursuits until she leaves. Because very few things are actually where they are supposed to be (including the box spring sitting in the dining room because the movers couldn't get it upstairs) there is extra work to be done. There are dust bunnies to be captured, beds to be made, satellite receivers to be hooked up (gotta keep her entertained), a numerous other chores.

So what, you may ask, does this have to do with writing? Everything! This is a list of things that will keep me from writing. Not that I don't want my mom to visit, but lately I seem to be opposed to anything that takes me off task. Maybe I'm becoming some kind of hermit????

To Do Today:
1. Finish JR's chapter
2. Prep at least 1 chapter for Friday's defense
3. Grocery shop (hey ya gotta eat in order to write, right?)

posted by Dr. B. 8:49 AM

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Haven't been getting much of my own writing done lately (post Cs) with the end of the semester looming, but I have been prepping for summer classes and dissertation defenses, reading diss chapters, and teaching. I guess sometimes our own writing does suffer a bit. If we could just find a way to get blogging to count toward tenure I'd be a happy camper :-)

posted by Dr. B. 10:23 AM

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posted by Dr. B. 7:55 PM

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posted by Dr. B. 7:47 PM

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Back from CCCC, feeling invigorated, got lots to do. Spent some time reading Gee's book on video games and literacy. Will blog about it here or over on the main blog when I'm done with it. I have so much to do I don't know where to start. Things I need to do in the very near future include reading diss chapters and a full diss. Another thing I need to do is to start mapping out my new project more clearly because I feel so scattered right now. I have a horrible tendency to over do stuff. If I don't map this out soon I'll end up with a first chapter that is in excess of 100 pages long rather than just being background for what I really want to talk about. Hopefully over the next few weeks this will start to materialize. Up way too early today, going to do a little of this and that all day (like maybe finish the Gee book) and then go in to the office later and pick up diss stuff and go to a faculty meeting.

posted by Dr. B. 5:57 AM

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posted by Dr. B. 11:21 AM

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I am making some progress. Not only did I get the documentary watched, but I got the exams read. Since I am up this morning I plan to read through the list of exam questions that I have waiting patiently on my desktop. I am going to the gym later today and I guess this will be a good time to drop off the video and the book that I have that was recalled now that the library has decided to block my account and I need to renew a stack of books :-(

In terms of my own research I plan to try to finish the Carole Stabile book today. After that I might move on to some of the books dealing with reproductive technologies. After the glaring omissions for the pill documentary I am wanting to go back and hit those books on and by Margaret Sanger, hard.

posted by Dr. B. 6:14 AM

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Kyle left an interesting comment about my telling readers what I am actually working on when I talk about writing. I do tend to be a bit vague when I am posting, offering only subjects when I talk about articles, chapters, etc. I don't know if this is intentional or if it is simply done for lack of time. But here's a heads up.

The major project that I am working on right now is evolving, it deals with race and network theory. I am looking at the way that technologies get connection for and by people of color and how that affects how they interact with specific technologies or technology in general. It moves historically through medical technologies, communicative technologies, and computer and entertainment technologies. It is still very much in the planning stages and while I have sections of what will become chapters that have been written for publication I am still thinking and researching it through. My goal is to have a solid prospectus done before school starts in the fall. This is an everchanging and constantly growing project that I am very excited about. I just wish I had more solid, uninterrupted time to dedicate to it.

On to other things, yesterday I had one of the worst migraine headaches that I'd had in a while so I got absolutely nothing done (with the exception of a teaching observation, so I guess that does away with the notion of absolutely notion). What that means is that my weekend is no longer mine (at least not completely) because there are some things that have to be done. I have to read some exams, look over some prelim. questions, finish watching the Pill documentary that I was supposed to watch Monday, and do some research. Sounds like a party, eh?

(update) I watched the Pill documentary and had a strong reaction to it. Rather than giving me more information for research it gave me fodder for one of my arguments. While this is vague it may make more sense if you read the extended post that I wrote on my "official" blog.

posted by Dr. B. 6:54 AM

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I didn't get much of anything done yesterday. I gave up after a while and went to the gym. I read over a couple of things for students and sent them feedback, but did no writing or researching work of my own. For this, my body/mind has decided to pay me back. I woke up this morning at 4:30 and have been working for about 1/2 hour. I am going to try to finish this review that I am working on before I see if I can sleep for a few more hours. I technically don't have to get up until 9 :-)

update (5:39 a.m.) Review done, headed back to sleep (hopefully)

posted by Dr. B. 4:56 AM

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Today is just one of those days when you don't feel like doing much of anything. It's rainy and dreary and all the coffee in the world won't wake you up. I am going to try to read and maybe watch the Pill documentary (yep, it's research).

posted by Dr. B. 11:53 AM

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My usual day to read the NY Times and anything else that strikes my fancy, but today I think I am going to do a bit of scholarly reading while sitting on the new non-smoky living room furniture. You heard it here first after months of waiting we have our first new, post fire furniture and our new home is beginning to feel like home. I am so inspired that I might even go out and replace the tv, coffee maker, and answering machine!! Who knows, I might even treat myself to a copy of The Sims: Bustin' Out (for research purposes of course).

Oh yeah, maybe it's time to replace the microwave too. Anybody know the shelf life on microwave popcorn??

posted by Dr. B. 1:09 PM

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Because this is my blog about writing I thought this might be an interesting link.
Technovelgy.com: Inventions from Science Fiction Books and Movies

This week has gone to heck in a hand basket. I spent a lot of time doing classroom observations which really exhaust me so I haven't done much else. Tomorrow (really later today) is a day for waiting for deliveries and service so I will try to get some reading done before going to the gym in the afternoon.

posted by Dr. B. 12:46 AM

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I had a 7:30 teaching observation this morning. I am not a morning person, but was strangely awake by 8:30. Just got home and am waiting on the elusive service man who will be here between now and when hell freezes over. Now I have to decide, do I try to work (as loopy as I am) or do I take a nap and wake up (hopefully more lucid) and work. Mind you, I have had a grand total of 3 hours of sleep, which is not unusual of late but what is unusual is that I actually feel like I could go back to sleep.

I think I just answered my own question, I'm taking a nap and waking up to make a real weekend type breakfast before buckling down to work and later back to campus for another teaching evaluation.

posted by Dr. B. 9:08 AM

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posted by Dr. B. 6:13 PM

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Yesterday was pretty much a bust. I was in need of some downtime so I took it. Been up since 5 this morning, updated Endnote on my desktop, surfed the web, ummmmmm...ok, so I spent 2 hours doing nothing and I'm ready to go back to bed. Doing more teaching observations this week. Need to leave home by 9:30 a.m., wondering if a nap is warranted and is it called a nap this early in the day?

All of that aside, once I actually get my butt in gear I am going to read as well as do observations today.

posted by Dr. B. 6:50 AM

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Another weekend has officially past and I am preparing for bed. Tomorrow it is back to work. My writing time this week is going to be broken up by teaching observations over 3 days. This is not the best situation, but we'll see what happens. Tomorrow I am going to doo some reading and think about the layout of the race and technology project.

posted by Dr. B. 1:29 AM

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Just a quick update. I did survive the all-nighter. Now I am in the process of reading furiously through Devil in the White City in preparation for the B&C talk tomorrow night and doing classroom observations. I want to get through a good bit of the novel before the talk and then I can finish it before my book group discusses it on the 3rd. After a day or two of down time I'll also move back into the research and writing mode. :-)

posted by Dr. B. 7:49 PM

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Went to bed at about midnight after watching the game, back up at 2 and ready to finish off this article and get some shut eye or at least have a generally unproductive day because I am otherwise brain dead. Coffee is brewing and brain is working.

6:33 a.m. update
Wow, I have more to say than I thought I did. I am still working on this piece and beginning to wondering if I am adding too much. I may simply be forced to stop myself at some point. I'd rather have to much and have to edit some out than to have too little and look like a slacker :-)

7:20 a.m. update
Fading fast. Just about done. On my 3rd travel mug of coffee. Almost fell asleep waiting for endnote to retrieve sources. *sigh* The end is in sight.

8:23 a.m. update
Finished with 37 minutes to spare!! No all I have to do is send it off. Then I am off to bed with a book. With my luck the 3 massive mugs of coffee that I have had in the last 6 hours will finally kick in and I'll be wide awake!

posted by Dr. B. 2:35 AM

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I am awake, wide awake. So awake that the bathroom light didn't even hurt my eyes. Wondering if it is the looming deadlines that woke me up so early and so fully on a Sunday.
Today I am breaking my own rule about working on a Sunday. This is the day that is usually reserved for the New York Times and CSPAN2's BookTV, but today is different. Today I have to get a proposal in for the Watson Conference in October and finish the writing queer identity online stuff. These are the only 2 things that I want to work on today. If I finish them early then I can focus on the Times and some pleasure reading.

12:38 p.m. update
I almost have the proposal for the Watson Conference done. I'm proposing a piece of the invisible labor of teaching with and mentoring others to teach with technology that is aimed at WPAs and administrators. I know that this is a touchy subject and might be seen by some as airing dirty laundry (which it isn't because the same thing goes on everywhere), but I'm not very good at the political dance. After this I might have a little lunch, play some canasta online, and then move on the the looming deadline article. God forbid I have to pull an all-nighter!!!

1:25 p.m. update
Proposal is done and it goes a little something like this (it's a PDF file).

8:45 p.m. update
I've gotten some work done on the article, but it's not done. The All-Star game is coming on so I am going to take a break and pull an all-nighter if necessary.

posted by Dr. B. 6:57 AM

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Where was I? Well Thursday was a teaching day and then there was Books and Coffee and the reception that followed. Friday was a pretty good day. I spent 4 hours at Starbucks (with no wireless access) so that I caould work on an article that I need to send in on Monday. I needed access free time, but I still ended up sending email from my snazzy new cell phone :-(

Today is V-Day and I am going to spend some Q-Time with the partner type person and see if I can sneak in some writing time.

posted by Dr. B. 3:29 PM

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It's all writin', it's all good, that's my new motto. So far today I have:
1. made one hell of a breakfast
2. sent off paperwork so that I can replace fire damaged stuff
3. Speced out a server
4. written a blurb about the importance of blogs in the classroom to garner cash for the abovementioned server and
5. sent a whole lotta damned email

Now it's time to get to the work of writing.

posted by Dr. B. 11:11 AM

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As my mother always said, another day, another dollar. Slow moving today. I think I'm coming down with a cold, either that or my allergies are hitting hard early this year. I've got some professional kinds stuff to do at the office today, some manuscripts to print, and much coffee to drink. My plan is to finish that stuff up within 2 hours tops and then head over to the coffee shop to work for a while. Let's see how that goes.

posted by Dr. B. 8:23 AM

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The weekend is over and its time to get back to it. I did work on the C&C article a little on Saturday, but relaxed for the most part. Been up since 6:30, a little better, but have spent the day so far playing catch up with email and promises of links. Now I am going to do a little (re)reading for something I wanna add to the C&W piece. My goal is to have a draft of this piece shipped off by the end of the week. I've had a pot of coffee, but I am beginning to feel like I could use a nap. I may nap for an hour in a bit.

posted by Dr. B. 11:16 AM

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