I haven't been a great blogger in the last few weeks. There's a couple of reasons for that.
First, I have a new course prep. It takes a long time to write each lecture from scratch. I teach Tues and Thurs and have been getting to sleep at 11:30pm the night before and then waking up the next morning at 5am to finish. Yes, planning ahead, starting earlier would help. But I feel like if I did that, I wouldn't get any of my own research and writing done. So I let the adrenalin kick in and then power through at the last minute.
Second, lately I'm not as stressed out about university budget cuts or about my kids or about finances (my usual three). I'm sure that will change soon enough! Lately, I've been most stressed about my publishing. I've been concentrating on writing a book, that morphed into two books. And then one of those two got so unwieldy that I had to split it in half also. So I have hundreds of pages, but scattered across three book projects. And then I sent off an article to the journal with the highest rejection rate. It is still on R & R there, but I'm not optimistic. So, I have been spending more time writing up my research and less on blogging.
Third, it is ski season! Fall is a dud around here. Summer and winter are where (that is, when) it's at! So I bet Sept-mid-December will be my blogging season. That said, now that I'm settling in to courses, I am getting back to more regular blogging.
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