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Yes, I am here, buried under stacks of paper that mark the end of the semester. I went from coming back from the conference excited to do research, to being overwhelmed with teaching. Funny, that. It’s hard enough having what amounts to more than one full-time job but then there are times, like the end of the semester, when I have to ignore the research in favor of the teaching. Or before conferences where I give papers and the situation is reversed and all I do is write. Yeah, sure, like I posted before there are those people who manage to write every day, but so far I ain’t one of them. Perhaps Alpha, my new iMac, will help me get into a good writing space, I don’t know.
On other fronts, things are good, Willa is bigger than ever, and we’re going back to CO for a few days over Christmas (just a few, I have that damn book to write, classes to plan, yah yah). I wheedled my Christmas gift out of Chris early and it is a gorgeous Thomas Mann necklace that I have hanging here in the office to look at — more art than jewelry and bigger than what I usually wear and completely fascinating. Can I be the kind of person to pull off a big necklace? Do I have the cojones?
Am also reading like paper is going out of style and watching tons of junk tv. Hibernation, except for trips to the dog park, has set in.