Today was mostly a day taken up with retail therapy (new towel rods: I have an exciting life!!) and a new-to-us Mexican restaurant over in Beverly. In and amongst that I graded hundreds of short assignments in one of my courses and set up the spreadsheet for the gradebook, so that when the final exam is finished (around 2 pm tomorrow) I will be ready to fly through the LAST requirement for the semester.
Also I worked on the assignments for an workshop I am taking on online education: I'll have more to say about that anon. There may be some value in online education, but I fear that it just depersonalizes and commodifies learning even more than is already the case. I am collecting evidence, and may amuse myself by writing a critical essay on same in the next few weeks.
Mostly I must get my dissertation draft done. After 7 pm tomorrow, I will be free, and then I will have 16 days til the end of the month, which I believe is adequate to the task of completion. I will not say more about it now, but am developing a schedule. Short bursts of writing, following by weeding, housepainting, cleaning - all the contemplative activities, yeah. It's ambitious, but possible. And then - June/July/August are MINE.
Posted by otto0114 at May 14, 2008 09:11 PM