How's everyone doing? You may have noticed I skipped a week because I am still adjusting to being productive while caregiving and practicing the art of adding and subtracting to make it work. QOTD: are you a goals person? If you're a regular reader of this blog you probably are. If others' goal lists make … Continue reading Spring Semester Goals
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Adding and Subtracting
How are ya'll holding up? Today marks the start of the spring semester for me, and so far, it has been suspiciously quiet on the email front. Anyway, today's post is brought to you by the high-functioning overachiever in me. It's a new year and we all might be thinking of how to be the … Continue reading Adding and Subtracting
So Many Projects, So Little Time
Happy New Year to those who use the Gregorian calendar! I have some more personal posts coming down the pipe soon, but I wanted to tackle a topic that was weighing on me this week: how to choose which projects to pursue. I don't know what your feeds/emails look like but mine are teeming with … Continue reading So Many Projects, So Little Time
#B*tchBye: Leaving Twitter for Mastodon
If you're an academic on social media, you've probably heard that Twitter is dying thanks to Elon Musk. This may or may not concern you, but for many academics it is painful to watch and fatiguing to think about starting over someplace else. Am I sad to leave Twitter? Hardly. My final tweet I joined … Continue reading #B*tchBye: Leaving Twitter for Mastodon
Update! Baby Azar, Goals, CFP, ECA Newsletter
Hello again! If you are a regular blog reader, then you know it has been a good long while since my last post in which I outlined my plan for a spring academic writing sprint. I had also shared with you all my progress on spring semester goals with the idea of keeping myself accountable. … Continue reading Update! Baby Azar, Goals, CFP, ECA Newsletter
Spring Semester Goals Update
How is it going? This week is my spring break week. I was going to have a post for you about planning out my spring break, but the lead-up to NeMLA took more out of me than I thought it would, so here we are. As much as I'd like to take my own advice … Continue reading Spring Semester Goals Update
Big Dreams
How's everyone doing so far this year? It's been a minute since I've posted because I found I needed time to adjust to the spring semester schedule. Remind me to blog about navigating periods of transition sometime. Today's blog is about making big plans, dreaming big dreams, for your academic (or professional) life. I'm inspired … Continue reading Big Dreams
Research Pipeline
This is post #2 in my mini-series on organizing your research (also, here is #1 and #3). If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may have read about my Low-Key System for Managing Academic Projects. This post is an update to that original concept as well as some general advice about creating project … Continue reading Research Pipeline
Research Themes
This is post #1 in my miniseries on Organizing Your Research (find post #2 & #3 here). I remember having a moment of clarity after reading/hearing (?) Roopika Risam discuss how she organizes her research interests (see her awesome website for inspo). Up until then, I was like a lot of current early-career academics: jumping … Continue reading Research Themes
Spring 2022 Goals
Don't you just love a good goals post? Right now most folks in my feed are either "my only 2022 goal is to survive" OR "I'm going to do all the things!" This post is...somewhere in the middle. It's not in my nature to go from thing to thing without a plan, and, on the … Continue reading Spring 2022 Goals
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