ADMIN: A Bit of Spring Cleaning

I’ve been doing some tweaking of site pages lately, and in the process I inadvertently stripped the About This Site and Current Reading List pages out of the sidebar. They’ve been restored, and a new page has been added — Research Notes, which will feature bits and pieces of files that I am currently using for my research projects. Most of these files will be password-protected, but if you leave a comment and ask for the password I’ll generally be more than willing to provide it by e-mail.

I haven’t done much in the way of updating lately, but now that a few of my current projects are starting to pick up speed, I ought to have a few more things to post about very soon. Many thanks to those who’ve come across my blog and started reading — I intend to build up momentum again in the very near future!

InaDWriMo 2: A Late Update.

InaDWriMo has been spluttering a bit lately, mostly because my motivation levels seem to be fluctuating like mad. An annoying head cold earlier this month really threw me off my stride, especially on the German reading prep that I’d finally seemed to be getting a handle on. Getting back up to speed has been a real fight this past week, and it hasn’t entirely been helped by the fact that my day job has seen a slew of projects that have sapped quite a bit of my energy to write.

But in essence, all of the above are just excuses. Time to see if I can push myself a little harder in the coming week to clean up a few more things. I’ve learned that the three book reviews I have on my to-do list aren’t due until the end of January, but I still have to read those books in the meantime. Another update will be forthcoming once I’ve made a bit more progress.

Works in Progress: InaDWriMo

(New and rather self-explanatory journal tag — works in progress.)

Academic Ronin has an interesting post about InaDWriMo (International acaDemic Writing Month), the scholarly equivalent of NaNoWriMo.

I have a few projects in the works, including an article I’ve just sent off to a journal for peer review. Clearing out these projects will be a major goal for this month, especially now that I have one conference I’m scheduled to present at next year and another conference that I’m working on a proposal for.

I’ll post more about my projects as I bring them closer to completion — here’s hoping that November will be a fairly productive month!