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+title: 'The Work Ahead'
+date: '2008-09-03T07:59:29-04:00'
+permalink: /the-work-ahead/
+tags:
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+Yesterday was the first day of classes around here, but today’s my first day of teaching. In preparation, I’ve done a major revamp of my [teaching site](http://machines.pomona.edu), built a [blog](http://machines.pomona.edu/67-2008) for one class and a [wiki](http://machines.pomona.edu/190-2008) for the other, and am now just looking forward to getting the fun underway.
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+That’s the good news. The other good news is that I’m more up to speed with my administrative duties than I think I’ve ever been, not least because I have to be: this fall, I have a tenure review to conduct, a job search to chair, a national workshop to organize and produce, and a number of other assorted issues to contend with, and I’m feeling — for the moment at least — fairly well on top of them.
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+The bad news is that things in the rest of my work life have pretty much ceased to progress since I got home from Paris: I’ve got a book review due in a few days, and while I’ve made myself a really good and thorough outline, the review itself isn’t written; I’ve got a couple of presentations to give this fall, and while they’re coming from material I’ve already written, they’re still going to require some culling and organizing; and then there’s MediaCommons, which we’re hoping to relaunch soon, and that book, which I need to keep making progress on.
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+So things are likely to be a little less active around here for a bit than I’d like, and the gradual accretion of my twitterings, which demonstrates how little I’ve got to say even at the baseline threshold of 140 characters, is just becoming a bit embarrassing. So I’m going to turn that feed off for the time being, and at some point when those posts seem to have more to contribute, I might add them back in.
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+For now, onward. And happy fall!
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