Um… Is This Thing On?
Oh. Hi there! Gee, um… long time no see.
So I’ve just five minutes ago submitted the book manuscript that I’ve been working on for the last bit. (And just FYI, the deadline was today. And I took the last two days to fiddle with formatting, proofreading, screenshot collection, and the like. I’m stunned to be on time, because honestly, I never thought I’d make it.)
Anyhow, for the last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking to myself, you know, one of the nice things about finishing the manuscript will be that I don’t know what I’m doing next. I’ve got some projects in the pipeline, don’t get me wrong, but no big, focused Project. Which means that I’m actually going to get to pay attention to the small things — which is to say that I’m going to get to be a blogger again.
The first order of business, however, is knocking a few things off the to-do list, where they’ve languished all summer while I sprinted for the finish line. And then I’m going to be working on getting the manuscript posted online, at MediaCommons, for open review. I hope that participating in the discussions coming out of that review process will constitute my primary scholarly work for the fall — and so I hope that you’ll come by and read and leave me whatever feedback you have to share.
Which is to say that I’ll be haranguing you to do so. But hopefully I’ll be able to pay attention to other things going on in the world, too…
14 August 2009 11.08 am
Congrats!!! on getting the book done, and on time, and not even at 5pm, which is what I would have done (and then prolly about 3 months late). Yay! Can’t wait for the MediaCommons version either.
14 August 2009 7.11 pm
Many congratulations — and looking forward to the online review!
14 August 2009 7.37 pm
Thanks, Noah and Cheryl. I’m looking forward to it, too!
16 August 2009 11.35 am
Hey Kathleen, I’m really looking forward to this, and interested to learn from your open review process. K.