I feel dizzy
During a recent discussion of my research materials with one of my committee members, she advised me (as her advisor had done for her) to be juggling at least three things at once. Well, I guess I really took that advice to heart today because I’ve been juggling about four projects simultaneously today — and I mean literally thinking about, writing for, working toward four projects at the same exact time. One minute I’ll be thinking the material that I’m reading and/or listening to makes a great opening for my individual proposal for the Cs, but at the same time I’m thinking I want to incorporate it into my presentation at Computers and Writing in a couple of weeks. Two seconds later I’m checking e-mail and responding to my colleagues on draft after draft of our 4Cs workshop proposal. I toggle from from that to my excel spreadsheet (except don’t tell anyone involved with the C&W conference that I’m using excel!) containing the data from my survey responses, look them over, and begin writing a narrative of the results for my dissertation — a narrative that I hope to work into my C&W paper — and then at the same time I realize some of my results really justify the need for the type of workshop we’re proposing for Cs. I guess all of this is supposed to mean that I’m “working smarter, not harder”, in that my projects are overlapping and intersecting in various ways; however, it is really making my head spin.
