{"id":951,"date":"2010-04-08T22:54:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=951"},"modified":"2010-04-08T22:54:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T02:54:13","slug":"im-kinda-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/08\/im-kinda-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"i’m kinda busy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently not one but two completely unrelated people asked me about archaeology. Specifically they asked if I ever thought of getting back into archaeological research. I guess I’d be lying if I said I don’t think about it sometimes. I read news stories about new<\/a> discoveries<\/a> with interest, and whenever we go to the AMNH or anyplace at all historic I bore my family with any archaeological details I happen to know. And there is one<\/i> chapter in my dissertation that I might<\/i> be able to convert into an article someday. I wouldn’t say that I’m incredibly interested in heading back out to the field (and definitely not back to the lab), but there are lots of other archaeological research topics to consider.<\/p>\n

But I’ve got lots of other research plates spinning right now, and not a lot of time for new stuff. There’s my big research project<\/a>, which has a pile of data to analyze and more on the way (I started student research process interviews this week). And I’m working on an article with another colleague. And I’ve spent some time this semester developing a game to teach students about evaluating information, which I’ll be presenting at a conference<\/a> in June and probably trying to write up somewhere. And I’ve got a couple of other ideas floating around, too.<\/p>\n

Time is always the issue. I’m a greedy time junkie — I crave more time the way shopaholics can’t wait for their next consumer fix. It’s not that I want to do less librariany stuff to fit in more research. I love the librarian parts of my job, and I’m still totally thrilled to be teaching our new course this semester. If anything I want more time for that stuff, too. And family stuff and leisure stuff and and and…<\/p>\n

Maybe I should stop reading. Clearly that’s part of the problem. Reading leads to new ideas, and new ideas lead to yearning for time for implementation. Literacy: the hidden dark side!<\/p>\n

(Or, of course, I could always just relax a bit.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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