Bah!

It's possible that I'm going to have to resend the manuscript AGAIN. It appears to have gotten lost in the mail. I should know within the hour whether or not they've received it. I do not relish the possibility of walking to campus again, sitting in my office for two hours printing it again, and walking down to the post office again. But if it needs to be done, it needs to be done. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they find it.

I can't believe it's the end of June already. Seriously, where does the summer go? I plan to start writing again tomorrow. I've got about 10-15 pages of my lit review (which is what I'm currently working on). I'm going to try to write another 10-15 on Rogerian rhetoric. I'm writing the lit review kind of piece-by-piece, which isn't what I intended, but I wrote this section on mediation and negotiation a while ago, thinking it would be for a different chapter, but realized that it needed to be in my lit review. So I set it aside. That's what's happened with the Rogers stuff too. But I think I understand the structure of my not-yet-written lit review and I think this will work. It'd be nice to have that Rogers chunk written by the end of the weekend. Then it's back to reading. I've set myself the goal of July 31st to have a draft of my lit review and an article done. it's a lot to do at once, but hopefully it's do-able.

UPDATE: The manuscript has arrived at the publisher! Hooray!

Chinese and Rogers

I've spent the last two days eating leftover Chinese food. Now, leftover egg rolls from what used to be called Lucky Garden are among my favorite things, but a few days of leftover egg rolls and shrimp lo mein and a girl starts to feel, well, icky.

But we ate pretty much all of our food before we went to PA and haven't been grocery shopping since we got back -- a week ago.

We're going tomorrow. I have visions of homemade jerk marinade and salmon steaks.

I've been rather productive as of late, so that's a plus. I've been reading A LOT about Rogerian rhetoric and am realizing that it probably is going to go into my lit review, not my invitational rhetoric chapter. I originally imagined that it was more closely related to invitational rhetoric, and it probably is, but there's too much to say about it, I think, to include it in that chapter without hijacking the chapter's focus. I would love to be able to talk with Foss and Griffin about the connections or disconnections between invitational rhetoric and Rogerian rhetoric. Maybe at Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s). How many times can I write "rhetoric"?

On a bit of a bummer note, I have to go to campus AGAIN tomorrow to print out the final final draft of Transitions, AGAIN and overnight it to the publisher AGAIN. This is my fault, mostly, and the publisher (Bedford's) is being amazing about the fact that there were errors in the final draft -- that's not at all my complaint. The complaint is that it's supposed to be 95 and humid tomorrow and my right leg is really hurting. I have a Dr's appointment on Friday to see what's going on there. I imagine cortizone shots are next on the list of things to try. But walking, not so much fun these days.

Which makes the two days of Chinese leftovers even more ickifying.

But, tomorrow the Transitions manuscript will be done done, I'll do some photocopying that I needed to do this week anyway, and I'll probably just stick around campus reading until my husband gets off work and we go grocery shopping. So, by the end of the day, I should be able to check three things off my list: Transitions, photocopying, and grocery shopping. Hooray for a full fridge!