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I did some writing over the weekend, which led me to think about some things that I needed to read, so today has been a note-taking day. May...

I might as well start calling this "Summer Reading Project." I've done a lot more reading lately than writing. So far I've...

Well, at this rate I'm not going to get this paper done any time soon. Today I spent more time reading than writing. (OK, so that's ...

I made some progress on my paper today, adding material, moving things around, rephrasing stuff, tightening up arguments, and so forth. I al...

I spent some time today going over my paper, taking notes on Google Keep, and adding some ideas and quotes to my draft. My plan is to work o...

I spent today reading instead of writing. I finished reading Stephen J. Hartnett's book, A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, a...

Writing a bit late. Just got off the phone with my brother, who is one of my best critics. We talked a LOT about my paper and its problems, ...

Spent quite a bit of time looking for a statistic in order to finish one relatively unimportant sentence in my draft. That's something t...

Sitting among my books today, looking at what all these scholars had accomplished--sometimes in languages that were their second or third la...

One of the things that has been perhaps getting in the way of my writing process (besides my allergies) is the current coronavirus surge in ...

I did some work on the paper today, though didn't achieve as much as I had hoped. I think I made the mistake of looking at the news firs...

I'm writing earlier today because I get my second COVID shot later this morning, and I don't know what shape I'll be in after th...

Today I wrote an email to a colleague in which I briefly described my project in three sentences. I include that in here because my colleagu...

Today wasn't a very productive day, I must admit, despite having a new direction with my introduction. I worked a bit on that, but the p...

Knew I forgot something yesterday... These past two days have been somewhat uncomfortable (high pollen counts) but also helpful. I worked ou...

I didn't write much of anything today, but I finished reading Evan Dawley's book, Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial Cit...

Neglected to post anything here yesterday. Not much to say, though, for yesterday or today except that my hay fever is keeping me from being...

Today wasn't a good day for writing for me--my hay fever (and the medicine I take for it!) had me lethargic and foggy-brained all day. I...

I did actually end up doing a little writing over the weekend--mostly on Saturday, and it mostly consisted of putting back some material tha...

So today I didn't wake up early enough, but I did have a productive meeting with my colleagues in my faculty mentoring circle , "Ho...