My original intent was to track my scholarly progress throughout my sabbatical. I envisioned writing in a scholarly style, working through conceptual frameworks or the finer parts of data analysis in ways that would awe my readers -- not that I really thought much about my audience apart from assuming that it might be whoever reads the required (I presume) report. Together with the two published articles I projected, my blog would brilliantly justify the several months I spent away from campus.
So, am I reduced to cataloging events of the day, the company I kept, meals eaten, and a passing acknowledgement of time spent on various (fragmented) projects? Perhaps so.
Does it matter? Only if my readers are not amused -- or even worse, if really I have no readers, and I blog purely to satisfy my own ego.
What would save the esteem of my sabbatical blog? Actually finishing the several research projects/papers I have in various stages of disarray. No! I should say "stages of completion" and pick one to finish as quickly as possible. No more blogging on trivia; next blog on substance.
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Please keep up the trivia. That is what makes the non-trivia worthwhile.
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