Here I am in my new home office, listening as Mennonites in their buggies ride by on their way to church. Bonnie is sleeping in her bed at my feet (the hardwood floors are hard on her hips, so I’m investing in plenty of dog beds.) This morning we walked across the street, down a gravel road and through Mr. Baker’s farm. Last week at this time I was frantically packing boxes. Tomorrow I start the new job at Bucknell. This is a curious bucolic limbo.
Organization and Procrastination
I love Things. I’ve become a to-do list junkie, and although I don’t really embrace the GTD lifestyle, LifeHacker has given me food for thought about threshing away at my inbox and slicing up the tasks and projects and goals and objectives that threaten to overwhelm me.
Longer than a Tweet, Shorter than a Post
It’s been a strange few months. Flying back last night from an Open Annotation conference I realized that I’ve really struggled with how to represent myself on this site. I’ve used it mainly as vehicle to articulate teaching experiences and some research work – but I’ve been very conscious of treading carefully due to being on the job market.
My hope is that the space will be one where I can consider larger research questions and reflect at more length on the work that I will be doing at Bucknell. So over the coming weeks (and glorying in the craziness of moving, teaching at DHSI, and starting a new job) I’ll experiment anew with my voice and how to use it here.
Watch this space.
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I’ve avoided writing on this site for months now. There was plenty to write about, but I just couldn’t bring myself to share most of it. The emotional intensity of the last several months left me tired, and sad, and unable to make enough sense of what was going on to post anything.
All the books and time …
My laundry list of books, articles, and posts grows exponentially and I can’t figure out how to manage it. Althought there’s something romantic about drowning in a sea of books, I think it’s probably wiser if I find ways to do a better job of all the books, articles, and other forms of publication that I need to stay current with. I’d really love some guidance about how to tackle this overwhelm and feel that I’m tucking in in some meaningful way.
Let me know what you do: