Half of the Brain :
the place all those random thoughts that flit through my head each day go to die

moving sux

and it's only going to get worse before it gets better.

And as if moving wasn't enough there's this whole buy-a-house thing that's driving me batty. Yep, we're going back once again this weekend, but we're just about out of time and have to make a decision and make an offer. The problem is that there's just not anything we love (within our price range) but it just makes good fiscal sense for us to get off the rent cycle. So if nothing new rears its head we'l have to pull an eeny-meeny-miny-moe with what we've already seen.

I'm actually in this space where I'm working for escape, which is great because it means I'm actually getting things done. The casualty in all this though is my house. I can't even stay in it these days. I look around and say: wow, look all I need to ____ (clean, sort, organize, pack, put away, etc). So, I have a permanent table staked out at the local BAM, that way my escape is complete.

Last year I read this book, "write your dissertation in 15 minutes a day" . It's a good book; pedagogically it echoes everything that I've come to believe about teaching writing so I can't say it had anything new in it, but it served this... duh! why don't you actually do all that stuff you tell your own students to do ... kind of purpose for me. However, author of said book advised three things not to do while writing the Diss: have a baby, get a puppy, and move.

After going through this past year with K and C, I definitely get the baby thing, and here I am-- 3 MOVES LATER and preparing for MOVE 4 I can personally attest to the move thing. The problem really is that moving interrupts any sense of momentum, and in my case meas that with every move I have to reorganize all my materials and regather all the library research. BLACHH!

I am however in the process of trying to assemble a ist of blogs from folks who live in the middle-georgia region. (not that i think there's a huge regional difference in bloggers-- my sense is that most blog-types blog for a short list of similar reasons). I would like to blogroll a "local" grouping, as I really was intrigued by that entry I read on Frolic earlier this summer that categorized the character of DC bloggers by their blogging location.