"Seventeen years I've wanted that little item and I've been trying to get it. If we must spend another year on the quest... well, sir, it will be an additional expenditure in time of only... five and fifteen seventeenths percent."
(For years I've been wondering what "five and fifteen-seventeenths percent" means; fortunately, someone explained it on one of the two entries on their blog(!).)
The last few days have been filled with commenting on student work, setting up groups for the second project in my class, a doctor visit, all kinds of errands, and not a whole lot of writing. Time away from a project can lead in at least two directions--primarily, the distance can enable you to think anew about it and have new perspectives on what it is that is troubling you (OK, me) about it. That can either make you/me see a new path toward finishing it, or it can lead to despair over ever being able to do it or the feeling that it's an impossible or even wrong-headed task.
So now I'm rethinking the whole thing (again). This is definitely not going to be writing my journal article in twelve weeks...
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