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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Spring Breakneck

The paces have been slow to moderate. Here are the top ten or so accomplishmabobs from the first few days of break:

(-1-) Filled out my bracket (not too late for you, btw).
(-2-) Revised my selections.
(-3-) Futzed with the XML for two maps I will be sharing at the conference next week.
(-4-) Revised my bracket selections again. One last time! Washington State?
(-5-) Re-read my CCCC paper and changed a couple of things.
(-6-) Avoided eating the Wheat Thins D. brought back from her mini-vacation last weekend.
(-7-) Sent and received a couple hundred emails.
(-8-) Played basketball with Ph.
(-9-) Crabbed at HR about my shabby dental benefits. I was told, more or less, "So sad for you, my rotten-toothed friend!"
(-10-) Read a couple of articles and noted them to the diss blog.
(-11-) Eked out a couple of pages each day toward a viable prospectus draft. Today, like yesterday, I told myself I would stop no matter where I was after I'd reached 600 new

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"The shifting, the disconnection or parataxis, the "rustle," as Barthes calls it, of language--these are perceived by many in composition as threats to the very control over language that writing instruction would have itself confer" (294). James Seitz, "Composition's Misunderstanding of Metaphor," CCC, 42.3, 1991.