From now until the end of October:<\/p>\n
— Three conference presentations: one in New Haven<\/a> (this one is a poster\/talk about my still un-finished dissertation); one in New Orleans<\/a> (this is is a presentation about the PAR Photovoice project); one in Chicago<\/a> (a presentation about health and health-related work in NOLA).<\/p>\n — Program director’s meeting in Chicago.<\/p>\n — One week plus one day of fall break for the kids in mid-October (cut short by the Chicago meeting and conference).\u00c2\u00a0 Will we take the kids to Disney as originally planned?<\/p>\n — School events.\u00c2\u00a0 Parent-teacher conferences, back-to-school picnic, nightly homework, open houses.<\/p>\n — NOLA Aids walk Sept. 20th (Schweitzer group is participating).<\/p>\n — Doctor visits for Will’s casting and re-casting and eventual cast-removal.<\/p>\n — Doctor visits for Paul and I (we’re trying to Be Good).<\/p>\n — Weekend workshop for Photovoice project in October.<\/p>\n — Continued work on Photovoice project and Schweitzer program.<\/p>\n Laying it all out seems to help me think through it.<\/p>\n All this is like constant background noise that floods out my ability to focus, think, and write.\u00c2\u00a0 I know what I have to do, I know what I want to say.\u00c2\u00a0 I have outlines and the starts of each chapter… I just need to flesh each one out in draft.\u00c2\u00a0 (And make a beautiful poster about it.\u00c2\u00a0 The poster doesn’t require the draft being done, but I’ve never made a poster for this kind of event before, and the attendants are my Academic Heros<\/a>, so I’m way nervous about it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m talking about the poster during a cocktail hour where all the speakers will be milling around talking and asking questions.\u00c2\u00a0 And did I mention that the conference organizer<\/a> is one of my brilliant teachers\/advisers from Michigan, whom I respect and adore?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and my committee chair?\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, he’ll be there, too.)<\/p>\n I know I *can* do, each thing, and do them relatively well.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, right?\u00c2\u00a0 But how?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m trying to figure it out.\u00c2\u00a0 Suggestions welcome.\u00c2\u00a0 *gulp*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From now until the end of October: — Three conference presentations: one in New Haven (this one is a poster\/talk about my still un-finished dissertation); one in New Orleans (this is is a presentation about the PAR Photovoice project); one in Chicago (a presentation about health and health-related work in NOLA). — Program director’s meeting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,105],"tags":[172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5186,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}