So I need to start getting my presentation together for CCCC. There's this line that all the grad students seem to know: you can write that on the plane. It's funny that we all seem to know the line, and we laugh and nod, but know darn well that none of us could (or would) actuall write it on the plane. Plus I'm flying from NH to NY -- not a particularly long flight.
I'm excited about my (potential) presentation. I haven't really started it yet. But it's on invitational rhetoric in the composition classroom. It's based in part on my classroom study, and in part on theory, and it should end up being not only an article that I've been writing in my head for some time, but a chunk of chapter 2 or 3 of my dissertation. I was reading and taking notes for the lit review chapter, and I need to keep doing that, but now i have to shift gears a bit and focus more on invitational rhetoric. Plus there's teaching.
I can juggle, but this is hard. You all know that, I'm sure (whoever "you all" actually are), but trying to balance reading, writing, teaching, commenting on student papers, conferencing, and that little thing called life? It's just rough. I've been doing some form of this balancing act since 1999 but it's still difficult every semester. I'll absolutely miss teaching next year, no doubt about that, but it will be nice to just focus on my dissertation, just as it was nice when I was a full-time lecturer to just focus on teaching, and not coursework. I know that this is the profession, and I'm game, but that doesn't make it easy.
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It's so funny because when I wrote that I thought, "You know, I bet Mike G has done it." You just seem like the kind of person who can pull that off. Me? Not so much. I've revised i the hotel, but never started on the plane.
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