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64/100 Days of Productivity

Over 2k words in this chapter today. I call that a win.

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In the case of waiting to hear if you got the job, does the old adage “no news is good news” apply?

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February Teaching Style,

Featuring such looks as:

that one day I wore my shirt inside out by accident, and

the first time I wore flats this semester

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January Teaching Style (or, the post no one asked for)

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69/100 Days of Productivity 

Last class ever. 

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63/100 Days of Productivity

Worked a bit on my dissertation but hit a roadblock because I needed to reread Esperanza Rising before I could move forward. So I hunkered down and reread it this afternoon.  

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34-35/100 Days of Productivity 

Don’t let my 8pm bowl of oatmeal with honey and cinnamon fool you, graduate school isn’t always this glamorous.  

(Currently on day 3 of serious article revisions.  Oatmeal for strength.) 

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54/100 Days of Productivity

I’ve had plenty of productive days since my last post like 2 weeks ago; but I haven’t felt like posting. I’ve been working hard and then was on Spring Break and then Spring Break ended in literal catastrophe (a tornado hit my parents house, knocking down a tree onto their roof. We are all safe and the damage isn’t as bad as it could’ve been. But still sucked). 

I have a lot going on in the next month and a half--among that: submitting article revisions, defending my dissertation proposal, finishing up my coursework, teaching, submitting a job application, reviewing an archival project, giving a keynote for a grad conference. You know, the usual. I’ll try to be more consistent with posting here; but some days it just feels almost too much to take an artsy photo of my workspace and write a post. For instance, today I read a novel for class, worked on lesson plans, ran 2 miles, downloaded some articles. But none of that felt easy--and none of it made me want to pause and write a post (though that is what I’m doing now). I’ll figure out a groove eventually, I hope.