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I haven’t had much to say about the dissertation for a while. It’s reached
\nits top secret phase, as covered up as a smoking Roswell UFO. Sometime in
\nthe spring I broke rhythm from the regimented daily progress I was making (600
\nnew words by noon or else!), iced the draft of chapter four, and rolled the
\noffice chair away from the office desk for CCCC, RSA, a jaunt to New Mexico,
\nanother jaunt to southern Pennsylvania: summertime. Next thing I knew,
\nshellacked by the whoosh of whole months passing me by, I was really coasting
\nthrough June and July: teaching online, mentoring four new online instructors, and putting down
\n15 hours per week in the Writing Center, while carrying the torch for a bunch of
\nonline pilots–consulting by email, consulting by IM. Hi, summer. Bye, summer.<\/p>\n

I’m once again on a dissertation writing jag. In over 6K words on Chapter
\nFive. Or maybe it’s not a jag
\nas much as a rediscovery and resumption of the daily rhythms that carried
\nthrough the first four chapters. Yet it is also like a jag, all herky-jerky.
\nLurching sentences (all of them footnoted with mea culpa<\/i>s, my bad, etc.). Beads of forehead sweat. Deep reflective pauses for
\nrummaging in the now-desolate grey matter for whatever on earth can come next?<\/i>
\nI am sure that with every sentence my facial expression tells of one who has
\nwriter’s anguish and an
\nupset stomach. So: I eat yogurt for breakfast and keep after it<\/i>, periodically
\nwondering what life will be like when the dissertation is drafted finally, maybe
\nby the end of Soontober.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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