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I’ve spent the last two days reading, and beginning to implement, David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. My blogging family over at Book Riot mostly swears by it, and they’re the most productive people I know. When I was a student, my first mentor (the woman who gave me my first academic-ish […]
I’ve spent the last two days reading, and beginning to implement, David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. My blogging family over at Book Riot mostly swears by it, and they’re the most productive people I know. When I was a student, my first mentor (the woman who gave me my first academic-ish […]
When I was nine, Jian Ghomeshi was the first boy who ever kissed me. That used to be the start of a super-cute story about my life-long love affair with the CBC and Canadian culture, and thanks to the events of last week it now sounds like a headline in the Toronto Star. And it […]
(And it only took me to the end of October to remember to post.) This summer has been completely insane. I actually managed to meet all my most important goals. I finished the collaborative book chapter early in the summer, wrote and revised another chapter mid-summer, and just recently finished a chapter for a third […]
Hello. Hello! I know I am the worst at remembering to blog. But for once, I wasn’t avoiding blogging because I felt guilty about not writing. I was… wait for it… actually writing. Actually, actually writing. Here were the original goals for the summer: Finish the book manuscript. Write a promised book chapter. Write two conference […]
This week, I wrote a lot. In fact, I wrote my two papers for Congress (and their attendant Keynote presentations); at 3000-odd words each, that’s 6000 words of productive academic prose this week. Finally covering some ground! I also blogged this and this and this and this. I’m away for the next two week, first […]
I really want to post about ALL THE WRITING I did this week, but I can’t. Because I got distracted. First, I jumped head-first into a proposal for a new project at work. I don’t regret this, because I think it’s a really good project, but still — that was, all in, about 2000 non-writing-related […]
tales of life in the teaching lane
I'm a doctor, but, like, not that kind of doctor. I'm a recent PhD (Canadian Literature) starting my first teaching job in a brand new city on the other side of a really large country. I study pop culture, September 11th, gender stuff, and contemporary American and Canadian fiction. My major scholarly passion, though, is the pedagogy of undergraduate literature and composition. In real life, I like terrible television, Dr. Drew, Nintendo, avoiding exercise, and cooking elaborately. I'm married and I have two cats who completely run the show. My favourite isms include femin-, athe-, human-, patriot-, and popul-.
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