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It's break time! I still have off until the beginning of Feb, so I've had to construct projects for myself, besides watching Dr. Who, which I've been doing alot of. David Tennant kicked it last night and I think I'm satisfied for now - it's amazing how attached you get to an actor and how resistant we are to see a new one take his place in the same role so abruptly.
Even when I go back to "work" it's not going to be intense this semester - I've only got 1 class to teach this semester, but I have alot more that I should be doing - publishing, professional projects, studying for my candidacy exams at IUP (which means ALOT of reading), and I present 3 papers at conferences this semester, which actually intimidates me alot.
The problem is that self-discipline has never been one of my strengths - Brian can pick up a huge volume of Heidigger or whoever and breeze through it just because he feels like he should, but I find very little motivation to hop on Joyce or Faulkner if they aren't assigned in a class or something. If it's a contest, a course, or to impress a professor, I'm all about it, but this semester I'm lacking in the motivator department. Which doesn't mean I don't want to do this reading/writing stuff - I very much do - it's just so much easier with a task master. So I've got to break my dependency issues this semester, because as a prof I won't have it either. Got to get used to it.
Today, as a bit of a start, I made a professional website: http://sleonard.yolasite.com/
It uses a super easy site-builder, and restricts some creativity (I hate the font), but I don't have to pay for a domain name and there's no ads. Any suggestions?
Even when I go back to "work" it's not going to be intense this semester - I've only got 1 class to teach this semester, but I have alot more that I should be doing - publishing, professional projects, studying for my candidacy exams at IUP (which means ALOT of reading), and I present 3 papers at conferences this semester, which actually intimidates me alot.
The problem is that self-discipline has never been one of my strengths - Brian can pick up a huge volume of Heidigger or whoever and breeze through it just because he feels like he should, but I find very little motivation to hop on Joyce or Faulkner if they aren't assigned in a class or something. If it's a contest, a course, or to impress a professor, I'm all about it, but this semester I'm lacking in the motivator department. Which doesn't mean I don't want to do this reading/writing stuff - I very much do - it's just so much easier with a task master. So I've got to break my dependency issues this semester, because as a prof I won't have it either. Got to get used to it.
Today, as a bit of a start, I made a professional website: http://sleonard.yolasite.com/
It uses a super easy site-builder, and restricts some creativity (I hate the font), but I don't have to pay for a domain name and there's no ads. Any suggestions?