- Happy Father's Day--to all the fathers and grandfathers, by blood, by choice, by serendipity. There are so many ways we create family.
- I'm really hoping to finish my Tim Robinson article today, a prospect that is being hampered by the atmospheric pressure inside my head. Apparently there will be storms in Lincoln today. No matter: Excedrin and a lake of water have taken the edge off, so I can work. I'm hoping that the lingering pressure in my head will dissolve my writing-filter, knock out the self-censor, so I can get this bad boy done. It's turning out to be much more of a beast than I thought it would. Write a paper on Tim Robinson and Chris Arthur and argue for more Irish nonfiction writers to write Montaignian essays? Sure, no problem. Piece of cake. Ugh. Not so. It'll be good when it gets done, but it's proving to be harder than I anticipated.
- I can officially announce now that I've taken a one-year position teaching composition at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, starting in August! That means that I defend my dissertation on Tuesday the 25th and I will graduate! I'm seriously excited about it, getting back to Minnesota, teaching at this spectacular institution, and seeing what cool things will happen in the next year.
- This means I have to move! And pack up my tiny little apartment while still teaching my summer class. My parents were coming down this week to bring me boxes, pack up my books, and take them North, so I would have some floor space to pack, but those plans have become tentative.
- The draft programme for IASIL is out! How cool does my panel look? Of course, I haven't started writing the paper, because I've been working on my Robinson article, but this should be a really cool experience. This also means that I can back off using Benjamin Black and Stuart Neville in my paper and concentrate on some other writers. Bring on the Ken Bruen!
- My 254 class continues to go well, as we all adapt to the 5-day schedule and the longer hour and a half class period. They turn in their rough draft of their first project on Tuesday. Should be interesting. We went to Morrill Hall on Thursday--which was, as usual, wonderful--and they used it as practice for doing place observation and writing up a field report. We had a great time talking about their experiences in class on Friday. I'm really going to miss Morrill Hall when I move to Moorhead.
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