Wow. I can’t believe it has been this long since I have blogged. A lot has happened; I changed my dissertation topic, submitted one draft of my diss. proposal, did some much-needed new research, and am finally writing what I hope will be close to the last draft. I returned to my first love, ESL, and spent the last year teaching writing and grammar to ESL learners, and to be honest it has reminded me of how much I love all aspects of language. I am hoping to get a tenure track position where I adjunct, and having discovered what the requirements for tenure are, have realized that what I really want is to teach. I love my research and writing, to be sure, but the question I am wrestling with now is “do I want to spend my life in the stacks, or in the classroom?” It’s easy to say and think that I can have both. The one thing I know for sure is that you can have pieces of both, but can you really enjoy both aspects of academia if you can only have partial moments in either? And can you be really exceptional in either endeavor if your attention is divided? I’m not sure that you can, but I suspect the journey itself will provide me with the answer to that question.
I have missed blogging and having an outlet for my thoughts and ideas. Hopefully, this time life won’t drag me away for so long!
