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I watched the debate last night and it seemed that one person had a script she was going to follow regardless of the actual questions, and that the other person wasn’t “flashy” enough. When are we going to understand that the election is not an audition for American Idol?

So let’s talk about my weekend. First, I turn 35 tomorrow. I don’t like the sound of 35. 30 was ok, but 35 sounds like halfway to something I really don’t like to contemplate: my own death. Of course there’s no guarantees when anything might happen to me, so let’s talk about something I am sure (fairly sure) to face in the next year or so: tenure.

I’m already sick of the term, and of realizing how much is riding on it. Getting back to my blog is actually in some ways related to tenure in that, with all the teaching and other things I was doing at the University, I hit a wall with my writing and got very little done over the summer. That’s just not going to work. So I am trying to get into a regular writing practice, which starts with just a five-minute writing spree before going back into the book or an article or whatever. And a blog is a great place to do this (unless I am writing about something I don’t want anyone to see). So, at any rate, I am worried I won’t get tenure. I’m trying to do everything right, but that might not be enough. Tenure is hard because you don’t know what might be enough — it’s a case by case basis.

I just gotta keep writing.

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