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It's Been a While

The semester ended yesterday - thank the lord. I am tired, cranky, and have nothing really to show for this semester. Well, let's see. I wrote an instructor's manual - which took 2 months of my time pretty exclusively, gets me no bang for the buck scholarship wise but gave me a number of bucks. I put together a call for papers for an edited volume, a number of which were excellent and I think the book will be good. I sent that proposal in and the publisher is looking at it. And I hired a student to collect data on curriculum for social studies - which is the beginning of a new strain of research in the part of my agenda that focuses on youth and political participation. I think maybe, I have something to show for it.

I taught 3 courses (one of which was Methods), mentored one student's undergraduate research, organized the curriculum of a new initiative, Civitas, which hopefully will take off next year. So I guess, that's some cool stuff too.

The princess went to Kindermusik once a week, two sets of parents came for visits for a week each, and I was pregnant the whole time. So I guess, personally I did some stuff too.

Okay - so I am exhausted and maybe there's a reason - I worked my ass off for 4 months while pregnant and mothering an under-two-year old. Maybe I have earned one day during which I do no grading, no talking to people, no work related stuff at all - crap - the house is a mess.

So I failed at that other job - housewife - oh well, I wasn't really planning on making that my strongest suit anyway...

Beautiful Weather

I think school should end in March so we can all be outside gardening all day in April. I love it here in April - it's so much fun. Snow and then 70 degree weather and then snow and then 70 degree weather. The husband hates it because it's bad for lacrosse, but I love it!