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I was already having a bad day...
...revising a paper from something that was not very good but adequate and something I didn't mind too much having my name attached to into something that I am embarrassed to claim but which hopefully jumps the requisite hoops, so when I received an email whose subject line indicated it had the decision on a piece of fiction I'd submitted to an ( Read more... ) -
some days are better than others
Today was a pretty good day ( Read more... ) -
in case anyone still had any lingering doubts as to whose child Gwen is
I present you with this, which was in Gwen's school bag when I rifled through it last night.
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let me start by writing down true things that no one else knows
Today I wrote a chapter where I had the skeleton but not the words. "still need more words here", my PDF says in read, and a few paragraphs later "more words here", and 1/3 of a page later, "words", and in the next line "words ( Read more... ) -
race against time
Friday is the end of September. The new academic year always starts the first of October, mentally if not actually. Wednesday is matriculation. Thursday I run a study skills workshop and meet my advisees. The following Monday is my first lecture. Sometime before then I want to meet with my tutors for my intro class. At that meeting, they will ( Read more... ) -
it's not fair
Thomas and Gemma took us to the humane society when we were kitty hunting a year and a half ago. They had a cat. They didn't need a cat -- but Thomas saw Figaro and knew he needed Figaro. Figaro was a gorgeous black beastie of a kitten, destined for a life of greatness ( Read more... ) -
authority
Back in spring I joined an "Academic Mamas" group on FB, and it's been quite interesting. One thing that has recently come to the fore, in many different threads, is what students should call their teachers. There are a lot of people in the group who are very exercised by ensuring that their students call them "Prof. X" or "Dr. X" and not "hey [ ( Read more... ) -
divergence
Over on my more academic/public-facing blog I recently wrote about writing fiction vs. writing nonfiction. I've been ruminating on an interesting difference lately ( Read more... ) -
headspace filled up
This novel started the 2nd to the last day of conferencing in Melbourne, when during one of the keynote talks I sketched a face and started writing, and I haven't really stopped since then, though it's gotten worse in the last few weeks -- I hit my New Year's Resolution goal on the 5th, and since then my brain has been like "whoo! go academic Sara ( Read more... ) -
composition media, part 2
So not only do I write differently writing long-hand vs. typing -- LaTeX has infected me so badly that when I write long-hand, I include mark-up in it. Why write . . . when instead you can write \dots?