WHEREAS her summer will involve teaching a two-week Shakespeare course, moving two households, going to Europe, and planning a wedding; and
WHEREAS she will be teaching a new senior seminar, getting married, and going up for tenure in the fall;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
- That she will complete revisions on her book manuscript
- That she will send said manuscript back out for review
- That she will research and write an SAA seminar paper from scratch
- That she will read the book she promised to review for a journal lo these many months ago
- That she will work her way through a buttload of primary and secondary texts she should have read in graduate school
- That she will read novels
- That she will catch up on good t.v.
- That she will go to the gym every morning, five days a week
- That she will meditate for 20 minutes every morning, five days a week
- That she will not use the internet between the hours of 1 and 8 p.m., five days a week
- That she will not bore the living shit out of her blog readers with too many lists like these.
8 comments:
So let it be written. So let it be done.
That's a pretty big deal - good luck!
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!
I think you should allow *bad* TV, and *bad* novels...
Wow, that is quite the list of resolutions. Good luck!
Wow, I'm totally floored by that internet one. I can't even imagine...but I guess being on leave makes that one sort of imperative. I will consider it when I'm on leave in the Fall of next year. I am looking forward to hearing how this works for you! I often wonder what I could accomplish simply if Gawker.com went under. I can't imagine having no internets at all for that many hours (would probably mean I'd just tack them on at the end of the day into the early morning!)
I need to write my SAA paper from scratch too--second thing I've had to write from scratch since December. Fun and scary.
Susan: the sad truth is that I don't like bad novels or bad t.v. (though I enjoy trashy magazines in limited doses). I have relatively mindless pleasures, like rewatching or rereading old favorites that I don't have to pay much attention to (Sex & the City or Evelyn Waugh's novels), but that's not quite the same thing.
Catty: Dr. Virago introduced me to LeechBlock, a Firefox extension that blocks specified sites for whatever hours you program. It's awesome. (And/but I've now realized how much of my internet behavior is predicated upon intermittent surfing, all day long--it's really not that much fun to hang out on the internet for an hour or two, all in a block, early and late in the day. Nothing happens!)
awesome list - go for it!
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