Progress

Sorry that I haven't posted in awhile. I've been making some decent progress on chapter 2. At least I think it's going to be chapter two. The organizational scheme seems to keep changing. I'm no longer sure I'm going to have interchapters where I talk about my classroom. I'm starting to think that separation won't work. But I'm not sure yet. Chapter two is on invitational rhetoric, but it may not stay in the two-slot. I can really see how these three rhetorical theories work together, overlap, which makes it difficult to figure out how to tease them out and talk about them separately.

But that's what drafting is for, right?

It's the Thursday before Spring Break and I have one conference in about an hour. I also have one tomorrow (crazy young man who wants to meet with me on the Friday before spring break). So today I'm going to try to do a bit of grading, then maybe go grocery shopping so that the rest of the week (except that one conference tomorrow) can be spent writing and revising.

Quite a few people here are going somewhere for spring break and, right now, I just can't imagine. I have SO much work to do. I need to use that week to catch up on grading, revise the chapter I'm writing with Paul, and put together my CCCC presentation (not too horrifying as it'll come out of chapter 2). I just can't imagine going anywhere. Although I am going to NY for a few days for CCCC, so I guess my "break" is just a week later.

Not that CCCC is a break. The nervousness surrounding presenting makes it less relaxing, and it's certainly structured, but when CCCC goes well for me, it's incredibly energizing. It's all about the choices I make, and those are hard to predict. A bad panel can really make me cranky and two bad panels in a row coupled with uncomfortable shoes or clothes can make me downright crazy. But a good panel? There's really nothing like it. It reminds me that I am so in the right place, that these are my people, and that I'm doing what I want to be doing with my life. That's an amazing thing.