Recently I passed around a draft of a 50 page chapter, a chapter that honestly isn’t quite done yet but is already my longest.
The other day I ran 38 miles for the first time. I was aiming for 40, so I guess that run wasn’t quite done yet, either. Cutting it short was the right [...]
I am suffering from some writer’s block that is seriously interfering with my dissertation progress. On a positive note, however, it looks like I’ll be presenting at THE conference in my field this autumn. And most of that paper is written already.
I have a few resolutions for the new year. Time will tell how many I can keep.
swim laps at least twice a week…
…so I can run the Quad Cities Triathlon in a triathlon (Quad Cities is out because there’s a marathon the same day)
eat less fried food
communicate better
write more
It’s amazing what a time-suck working on other people’s websites can be. I’m not complaining, really; the fact that time goes by so quickly while I’m working on them is a good indication that I don’t find the work boring, though it can become tedious. It’s just an observation, really.
Similarly, I’ve found that time passes [...]