Still cleaning... this time the files
I have been up to my eyeballs this week in personal organization. First, it was writing up a bibliography of all the writing books I've read or perused in the last couple of years. Then it was the email cleanout and tidying my bookmarks and links. Yesterday, I started to get my harddrive files in order and today, I'm actually going through the five file boxes of notes from my TA and my course works stuff and putting them to rest.
The anxiety about how I write and produce paragraphs of argument and exposition from my readings and my notes has come back in a wave of ick. Since starting the PHD five years ago, I have been treading water in a sea of expectations from myself and others about being an ordered writer. But who can be an ordered writer when the writing is so much about making a mess?
I still keep a lot of that mess.
Unless someone can write me here or call me and convince me that I don't need it anymore...
I'll let you know how it goes.
The anxiety about how I write and produce paragraphs of argument and exposition from my readings and my notes has come back in a wave of ick. Since starting the PHD five years ago, I have been treading water in a sea of expectations from myself and others about being an ordered writer. But who can be an ordered writer when the writing is so much about making a mess?
I still keep a lot of that mess.
Unless someone can write me here or call me and convince me that I don't need it anymore...
I'll let you know how it goes.