It seems like that when the work comes, it just comes. I was happily working along on my research leave. Now I am getting all these requests for revisions on publications I submitted, while still finishing a first submit. It seems like I have a deadline every week. Somehow I also ended up (I may have volunteered) on a few new committees. I was going to say "no" more in the new year, but it sounded interesting.... My calendar is already all black and blue again. I sometimes just flip forward to September where the page is still empty. Then there is the issue of setting up the new studies, getting grants for them, and finishing the ones to be presented at AAAL and CALICO. At the same time, I am tying to stay on top of my teaching. I have really great students this semester (and I am not just writing this because they might be reading this). Several have already come to my office to discuss their projects. The discussions and blogs are fascinating to read. So, I want to give it my all. I just finished preparing class, but still have the goal of getting the week after prepared, too. It will have to wait until Sunday though. And when I read the articles, some of them I have read at least 20 times, I always find something new. And I always get lost in them. I should just quickly reread them, instead I stop and ponder. Since I am still fairly new to teaching graduate students, I always struggle how to make it practical, theoretical, and empirical enough and not too much. And then of course there are the varied backgrounds of the students. It should make for an interesting semester.
Now I have 25 minutes to finish the article and create one more worksheet before I have to pick up my son from day-care.
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