A week from today we’ll begin spring break. Wonderful! A whole week in which we won’t have to go in to campus every day, and I won’t have to prepare for and teach a class (much less grade papers!). But Sydney’s swamped with work and I think I’ll be writing a paper, which I haven’t done in awhile, so it may be an angst-ridden week despite such lovely advantages.
But when I was thinking about my upcoming papering, I realized I’m going to have to shift my entire schedule around. Although I’m usually an early riser (though I think Lisa has me beat at 5:30!), writing papers requires a whole different personality. I slowly work up to the project all day (stuffing my head with ideas and details) and finally by mid- to late-evening I’m typing away. However, if I go to bed I have to start the process all over again the next day, so I try to stretch out those evenings. I seem to work like a crock pot: put all the ingredients in, turn it on, and you’d swear it does nothing for hours and hours, until suddenly the house is filled with good smells around dinnertime. Okay, okay, so the crock pot might be more reliable than I am . . .
Erin
Alan Schmierer