So, having rolled up my cyberjeans and taken off my electronic socks, I'm wading back into the pixel-pond called blogging. I've missed it. It's MY place on the web, where readers come and go, reading whatever dream, idea or story that I've put up (like jams and jellies?)here (like a collage?). My blog is my focus, however meandering and illogical it may seem. And it's my writing, my exercise in using words. yes, I like Facebook and Twitter, but I've really hungered for returning to my platform. I've missed reading other blogs, writerly and academic. Your blogs are where I've gained so much professionally as well as personally.
And I want to do more playing around with the graphic elements of things--to create a new banner, for one. This "Bink in the Shadows" is simply a placeholder for things to come. I've missed playing around with graphic design--there's great satisfaction to be had in mixing colors and shapes and photos and fonts--multimodal glee, as it were.
When I look back at my September posts, I'm tempted to do a point -by-point update, but since laziness trumps temptation, I'll only do a few:
- Walking--a great idea that fizzled down to walking up and down the stairs at work. However, I was seized with the fun to be had working in my yard, so it's a near-substitution of exercise. Of course, yoga continues, and I'm thinking of moving to a class and having a private lesson once a week. Financially, that would be great, but the truth is that getting into the groove of going to a class is going to take quite a bit of energy. I tend toward inertia at the end of the day. Oh well, another small, incremental goal, eh?
- Meditating: this habit completely fell out of my life this year--and I used to meditate every day. For years. I need to schedule a time and a place every day in order to return to the habit, which I know will help me remain calm and lower my blood pressure.
- Working: I have been pretty happy at work and have returned to being able to give my all without also feeling like if I do give my all, I won't have any energy for anything else. Now that the stress and the grief has faded, I feel good, and am grateful for that. Most of my energy has been going into my textspace--I feel more focused about what I want to have in it--have done a lot of "Big Picture" thinking about the needs of Basic Writers in terms of technology, and, of course, writing. My modest goal for next semester is to podcast the unit intros and the biweekly plans. Just podcast. Nothing fancy. And my modest realization is that, say what you will about Powerpoint, I like using it with BW's since it moves logically slide by slide, and contributes to slowing down and adjusting the pace at which the students zoom through things.
And, how are you?
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