This blog will be pieced together in the midst of the ceaseless noise of everyday life: people talking to me, those sudden noises that make the mind skip its groove, the singing that never stops, music playing and then the interruption of music not playing suddenly, phones ringing, ringtones, buses going by in the road, writing at what essentially is a waystation in my life….or is it?
I hope to write a great deal about things that I watch and read. I read mostly things I shouldn’t be reading, and watch too many movies to boot. I spend too much time writing curriculum that my students (Freshmen and Sophomores) often hate and view as "busywork." I spend a lot of time answering my children’s questions, which can be a little incessant, endearing and infuriating at once. They are smart kids, and ask good questions, and if I can just get a lot done by way of my academic work while they are at school and asleep, I’ll have done pretty well. I think that one thing I’m afraid of is that I can’t ever get enough work done in my free hours.
Then there’s the gym. I want to be going daily, but with the bus ride (parking passes cost a lot extra, and I’m on the doctoral student budget plan), it eats 2 hours every day that I go.
This doesn’t even take into account scouting, soccer, piano lessons, meetings, go club stuff, bullies at school, or my psychotic student (first legit psycho student ever, I’m happy to say - quite a feat for having taught this class ten years).
I have got to delve a bit more deeply into my texts and narratives, examining and questioning methodologies, and getting right off the computer when my spouse needs to go online (which I’m doing right this minute)…..anyway, that’s in a cliched nutshell my plans for this writing space. More about the title later.
