A while back I responded to Rebecca A. Goetz' questionnaire for/about academics who blog, and now she has published an article about blogging and the responses to her questions in the Chronicle. Her Chronicle piece is very encouraging to all of us academic bloggers. Times are definitely changing, and slowly blogging is becoming more and more "legitimate" in all aspects, and that's great! Jo(e) also has a good post about the topic of "blogging as an emerging genre."
I'm glad to be a small part of this blogging "revolution".
11D has some great links today too... (I actually got to Goetz' article through her), the piece in the Times about early sex education is fun!
On other news... Dissertation work is not going well this week, because... I have found a strong, powerful distraction. I may apply for a job. There, I said it. I can't believe I said this. (a tenure track job nonetheless). Probably just for fun, but, who knows? It's pretty early, not exactly academically, because I think I'll finish and defend the dissertation before the summer, but as far as my "babies" are concerned. I spent the whole day yesterday agonizing over this. Linton will be only 2 years 3 months at the end of August.
On the other hand, I have been (re)discovering a "side" of me that had been dormant for a long, long time... I find myself thinking that maybe, just maybe it would be fun to teach (mind you, this position is for the subject I like the most, but I won't say anymore for now, OK?), to work, to be a "real grown-up" once and for all. I didn't know I had these feelings, I thought I enjoyed just being at home, lazy me... Oh, well. It's all useless, because this will probably be only for "practice" and not for real. There are several other issues involved, but I won't get to discuss them now, Linton needs me (he still breastfeeds once of twice at night...).
PS Now it takes me almost twice as long to check all the blogs in my blogroll. It'll take a while for me to get used to it, but it's fun to regularly read more people!
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Wow, this is so exciting! Good luck on the interview etc.-- if they offer you the job you can worry about the rest then!
Good luck! I hope it works out for you.
Thanks for the link! I'm working on a long, long blog post about the survey results (the diss and job apps keep interrupting) but I promise I am going to do something with that material, in the next two weeks!
Applying for a job is a great way to start thinking about getting into that mode ..... it is always exciting to start planning for the future.
How exciting! This sounds great & I am sure you fill find the right job for yourself. Good luck with everything!
Good luck! Go for it! I think it sounds like a super idea!
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