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Lately, I've been putting more time into writing these notes than I've spent on the paper itself, so that's a sign that I should...

"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... wel...

I'm back to doing some primary research--close reading of a text I'm using as an "exhibit" (in BEAM terms) to see if I ca...

Not much to report here. Yesterday's work grading had to be put off to today because my internet was out all day yesterday.  Also found ...

I did some grading today and then had a little time to work on my paper. So my son and I drove out to Medfield to check out the old Medfield...

I was too busy deleting mails from my school's in-box yesterday and neglected to catch up on this. (I was just doing that in between app...

Fifty days into my summer writing project and I feel like I've basically given up on it. I've got to do something, though, to try to...

Today I did some grading and other teaching-related work. It's going to be an intense seven weeks, so I don't know how much writing ...

I did my presentation today. I found I'm a bit rusty giving conference presentations (just noticed from looking at my CV that before tod...

Forgot to write last night--today this is going to be short. I'm doing a bit of tuning up to my presentation for tomorrow because I want...

Since yesterday, there's been a lot of discussion on Twitter about one particular "idiom" ( chengyu ) in Xi Jinping's spee...

I just found that 1999 paper that I wrote on doing research on the internet. It was published in a 2000 volume of essays on communication an...

As of today, I am now officially a full Teaching Professor at Northeastern. It's not a tenured position, but there's some job securi...

I spent today working on my presentation for next week. Got some slides revised, but I need to figure out if my whole presentation will fit ...

I managed to make three screencasts for my summer class today, so I guess I achieved something. My videos are not at all professional, but a...

I did some thinking about my topic and paper today, but mainly I was working on my course materials for the class I'll be teaching next ...

Been mostly working on my presentation today (among other things). Went down a bit of a rabbit hole looking into an example regarding an ess...

After my meeting this afternoon, I spent most of my time reading Chang and Holt and working on my course materials for the upcoming course. ...

Managed to write a sentence on my paper today--and it was mainly a quotation. Ah well. Tomorrow I have a meeting, but I might also have some...

Not much to say for today. I spent most of my time working on my online materials for the summer course I'll be teaching in July. Will t...