Thursday, March 6, 2008

Whiling Away

Now that it's Thursday I'm beginning to feel like I've whiled away the week. I expected to take all week putting an end on Chapter Four, but I lazily splashed the finishing words on it Tuesday--two full days ahead of schedule. The final sentence goes "Need another sentence here." I will come up with the missing sentence before I double the line spacing and print a copy. And then there'll be one more wave of revithargy (a blend of revising and lethargy or drained recomposing) before handing it over.

About whiling away the week: the last two days my work sessions have been split between some tinkering with maps (in Flash of all things) and reading and engaging with a couple of informal responses to a chunk of the diss. Both of these are productive and worthwhile, but for all of the good involved, they are not much like the routine I'm accustomed to. Pum-pum-PUM, pum-pum-TUM. The tempo is different.

And tomorrow!--the Friday before Spring Break--you'd think the Writing Center would be a ghost town and those poor consultants (self-)assigned to work all day would quietly drift around the place, doing whatever they wanted to fill the time. But, no. By Wednesday afternoon, the entire docket was filled--eight appointments coming between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Don't you people rest?

I'd mouse up and change some of what I've written here, but the batteries in the wireless mouse have leaked out their last volt. To them I say, "I can relate."

Over "break": map-tinkering and reading up for Chapter Five (which, with a miracle, I can draft by my birthday for a perfect synchronization of fiveliness in early May), laying to rest article revisions I've been neglecting, reworking piece of Chapter Three for next month's CCCC presentation, and, for kicks, wallowing in NCAA conference tournaments. Should be enough to fend off boredom.

Posted by Derek Mueller at March 6, 2008 2:45 PM to Rhythms