Research and writing:
- I want to finish and send out this article on G. I've drafted it, but it needs some contextual underpinnings. I'd like to send it out by August 1.
- Review this 800-page book I volunteered to review. 800 pages!!!
- Get about 90% of the annual bibliographic essay done. I think that I'm at about 60% right now.
- Draft a presentation for a colloquium in the fall; this should be pretty easy.
- Think in some kind of serious way about that sort of book-like project that I'm kind of sort of planning. What's the first step, though?
- Get my syllabi in order. I only have one new class this fall! I don't think that I've ever had fewer than two new preps before--unless you count that anomalous semester when I only taught two classes.
- Read the one book that I'm teaching and haven't read before (I read the others earlier this summer).
- Get course packs together.
- Revise and reprint the Honors program handbook.
- Clean up some files.
- Finish knitting my shawl--I'm almost done!
- Knit an afghan.
- Finish a pair of socks (and probably start another one).
- Make paper and bind it into journals for Christmas presents.
- Sew three new curtains for the kitchen (I did one over spring break, and it looks so lonely in there!).
- Organize some files and whatnot.
- Um...the house is in pretty good shape, actually.
- I have a novel that I would like to try to get published, for real.
- I have a few short stories for which I'd like to do the same.
I don't actually want to be a creative writer; it's too weird and exhausting. The truth is that I really like working with people (who knew?); I also find that being absorbed into a story of my own creation, while exhilarating, is also really draining and disorienting. So I don't include this category of projects because I want to move out of academia--I don't. What I would like to do is to try to move some of my better stuff out into the world, so I don't have it hanging distantly in the background of my mind forever. I love me some closure, I do. And if it doesn't get published, at least I'll have tried.