the month of June

I haven’t done any work on the diss since May. I never finished blogging the Computers and Writing Conference. I’ve been avoiding this blog because it reminds me that I have a dissertation to write. I had forgotten the way that summer courses can swallow you whole.

This morning I sat on my front porch and read an OLD (Feb. 2008) copy of the Chronicle, because it had an article covering the Blackboard/Desire2Learn patent dispute. Even though I know the outcome, I am still interested in how it gets covered in publications of higher ed. I then began to peruse the latest CCC. In the midst of cramming in a survey of women’s literature and feminist criticism for my summer course, I’d forgotten how much I enjoy “my” field and “my” work, how much there is that I’m missing when I’m not looking outside the pages of a Norton Anthology.

Here’s hoping that I can continue to devote a bit of time here and there to my own scholarship, even while I’m really enjoying a return trip to Renaissance literature written by women (scarce as it is).