bisy backson
I am a little bisy backson right now; a year’s worth of professional development landed in my lap in the space of about two weeks.
I have (deep breath) an HEBC paper that’s done and an HEBC podcast that’s half-done (and that I’m not happy with—I can talk to live people in front of me, but talking to a microphone, an iMac, and a wall is just plain deadening), a talk next week on weblogs for the county that got sprung on me Tuesday, a sample entry for my half of a book proposal due Any Day Now, a tutorial to start work on for JCDL… and a task force to manage, a repository to run (I have web-page submissions glaring at me waiting to be massaged into shape for ingest, and huge numbers of article-lists to compile and send out with licenses), and a book chapter to think about.
(And one concert Saturday and another next month, plus associated dress rehearsals.)
I’m slightly freaked. It will all get done, because it always does, but I also always get slightly freaked, which always means less energy at home to expend on blog.
I was supposed to do a guest lecture at College Park yesterday, but the prof was ill and begged me to postpone. I suspect “postpone” means “cancel,” but c’est la vie. The train of thought I crafted in preparation will serve me other places.
So if I’m not my normal rip-roaring blog-self, please cut some slack; must go be bisy backson for a while.