It’s suddenly that time again: grappling with the CCCC presentation, working on writing and editing and design with the textbook committee, figuring out why two of the crawls in the website database at work keep breaking, trying to put Chapter 2 together, getting the Tacitus-and-weblogs article whipped into shape to submit for publication, and always the hundred additional domestic details. (How does one pack and ship a 54-inch-high chest of drawers 400 miles? Where do I even find a box like that?) Well, I shouldn’t complain. Tink’s singing to herself in the kitchen, and John’s recently put up two deeply insightful weblog entries that are well worth your attention: one on community college scholarship, and one on the social security debate. Check ’em out.
And I have to say, I’m very much looking forward to CCCC; not only to the presentations, which I inevitably find hugely valuable and informative (no matter how much I might gripe about some of them, which — as I hope might be self-evident, and I’ll refer you again to the English translation of this weblog’s name — is more a mark of my splenetic temperament than an indicator of any presentation’s quality), not only to seeing the folks whose weblog entries and journal articles I enjoy reading from day to day, but also to seeing old friends from other institutions, and colleagues who’ve recently gotten jobs and moved on. I’m hoping to blog some of the presentations I go to again this year, but I’m also going to be sure this time (as I did at Computers and Writing) that I ask the permission of the presenters, which I haven’t done at past CCCCs, and about which I’m feeling a little guilty.
Thanks for the links and supportive comments, Mike.
I guess a lot of us are in CCCC prep mode. The fact that the Annual Conference usually comes at the end of Winter Quarter for me always adds to the stress. This year, the meeting falls in our last week of term. Finals begin for me on March 22.
But at least I have no significant travel time (35 minutes down the freeway) this year, so that’s a major plus.
I’m looking forward to seeing you and many of the other comp bloggers next week.