laptop less!
I always haul my laptop whenever I go visiting relatives over breaks, thinking I will get Loads of work done whilst I am there. I get some work done, but not loads. So I decided to go no laptop to South Bend, IN and just not think academic thoughts.

I am hoping that this will jump start 2009, where I have two fellowships to apply for, two papers to write/revise, a conference presentation to write (for February) and all these deadlines are before the Spring semester starts!

And classes to plan for -- I signed up to teach a comp. course and research course as part of a learning community. Our theme is "Decentering Normal." We are reading Wit, Glass Menagerie, and Rent, and maybe something else. All plays! I am paired with a theater guy, who is teaching two courses: one of theater arts, and one on acting -- so we have four courses and then one extra seminar on how to be a student that the two of us are team teaching. It should be interesting though since all the students will be theater people.

Plus I am teaching my disability course again, but this time as a night course -- they say the night students are better.

Happy holidays, y'all!
--K