Epistemographer

So, I find it interesting that I’ve felt like I’ve had almost nothing to write about here for the past few weeks (give or take a sporadic post or two here and there).

When I used to keep a journal, I found that I could chart how generally content I was as an inverse relationship with how much I was writing. That doesn’t seem to be what’s at play here, however (though I am relatively content these days, with the exception of a gnawing panic about how I’ll be paying rent come June)…I actually have an urge to write here, and even have a sense of the kinds of things I’d like to write about, but I simply haven’t had the time.

Instead, a whole lot of other things are crowding out my free-thinking “blogging time”:

• 1) My dissertation, which I’m not blogging about because I already spend a big chunk of my day writing the damn thing to begin with. Plus, you can just check the sidebar to see how that’s going, anyways.

• 2) My class, which I’m not blogging about because my students might read what I write, and no real good can come of that. There’s all sorts of fun stuff going on on the course blog, but I won’t link to it from here (though Google seems to have already found the course website anyways).

• 3) Books I’m reviewing for Publishers’ Weekly, which I’m not blogging about because they’re paying me for my reviews, and I’ve never quite figured out how to negotiate the anonymity of those reviews.

• 4) Job search progress/angst, which I’m not blogging about because verious potential employers might be reading, and the market is bad enough without me whining about it in public (or showing my hand to anybody who might still be deciding on my application).

• 5) Thoughts about potential travel plans with Jenny once we both graduate, which I’m not blogging about simply because we haven’t made firm plans.

The five things above seem to take up virtually all of my time that I’m not spending sleeping, and since it doesn’t seem wise/worth it to write about any of them, my blog lies fallow.

On the bright side, I’m very much looking forward to reinventing this space once I finish the dissertation (argh – I’ve become one of those people who says “the” dissertation” rather than “my” dissertation!)…I found that hearing Jay Rosen talk about blogs inspired me to think of what I could do, that I haven’t been, and I look forward to having the time to explore again.

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