22nd Feb 2009
trying to juggle it all
Well, I haven’t gotten as far in Guitar Hero as I wanted to, because I just haven’t had the time. I can play a smaller-scale, shorter game like bubble spinner, but I haven’t had the time to practice songs to get better at Guitar Hero — which tells me something about the time kids spend to get really good at video games, to the exclusion of other things they can be doing. This semester is absolutely nuts; it reminds me of my dissertation seminar, but on steroids. I’m teaching my usual three classes, but also working on the book. The full manuscript is due in July and that’s going to be a tight deadline. I’m also working with middle schools in East Orange on a federal grant program to integrate technology into literacy classes. I have a paper to write and give at the American Educational Research Assocation conference in April, and another symposium to present. I’m tutoring an absolutely wonderful second-grader with her reading and writing once a week, and of course there’s all the usual stuff at home — cooking, cleaning, taking care of the animals. Thank God we don’t have children — I have no idea how that would work, how working mothers do it all.
Oh, you’re singing my song. “Too much time, so little to do. No reverse that.” Willie Wonka
Kids make thing fun but not easier. From the minute I wake uo in the moring (5:15) I feel like it is a race, all-day-long!