A few points for mid-November

Since I last posted:

• I found a renewed sense of that school-work-pressing-deadlines urgency, so I've made substantial thesis progress.
• Just as I feel GREAT about making so much progress, I feel a crushing pessimism surrounding the mountains of research and writing I still have to conquer.
• I miss having Amie and Amanda tell me to STOP researching and START writing... Last night I digitally sifted through over 50 downloaded articles for my next chapter.
  
• I love my job. I want to keep working there.
  
• I question myself in my job almost everyday. When I do mostly teaching, I wish I was doing more admin. When I'm not teaching, I feel like I should be.
  
• I've been reading about youth and digital media, and felt inspired by this Edutopia's articles about digital storytelling and defeated by the NEA Mark Bauerlein's website, The Dumbest Generation. Check them out.
• In the third year, we wear three hats: life, work, thesis... I only feel successful at these 1 at a time. Clean house = no work, no writing. Work hard = live in filth and sleep instead of write... Write all day = eat fast food and forget to shower... You get the picture.
  
• Amie, update us soon.
  
• Liz, update us soon.
  
• I miss you loads.
• That's all for now.