Neuer Gedankengang!

Wednesday evening

I think blogging could become another addiction, like email is for me. I get to feel antsy if it has been very long since I checked my email. I don't want that to happen - for this to become something I obsess about. I hope at some point this will be more than just a journal, that it will be a place where people with similar interests and experiences talk to each other. Of course, that will be more likely to happen if I tell someone I'm doing it instead of just waiting for someone to come across it!

This week I started reading a book, one of Morris Arnold's books about territorial Arkansas. It's time for me to begin background reading for the book I want to write - or whatever it is that I write in order to get the Hübsch letters published. A book would be interesting, but a series of articles would be okay also. Anyway, my point is, Judge Arnold's book is good, and it feels good to be reading something academic again.

But I also noticed that I focus on it better when I'm not by the computer. When I'm by the computer, I'm usually online, and I'm distracted by checking email or thinking about playing a game or doing some search or other. There is something to be learned in there - signs that the addiction is already setting in perhaps.

Today I got an answer from Sister Joy Clough at the Sisters of Mercy in Chicago. She didn't give me a clear answer to my question about whether the person they would hire to write the history of the order had to live in Chicago, but she did give me more information about the position. She told me to look that over and then what I should do if I want to follow through. And I think I will - it will be challenging, but I have to do it. I have to do the cv, and not just the resume. I have a lot of notes for that, but haven't typed them up. And then I have to write a cover letter and choose writing samples to send.

I had lunch with Georgia today, and we talked a little about my job situation and about this opportunity. And she told me something Dominik has said before, but she really had good reasoning behind it, and a gentle way of saying it - (I'm really enjoying the way our friendship is developing, parallel to my friendship with him) - that I tend to sell myself short sometimes. And she talked about the idea of my freelancing - I think I could do that - define what I want to do, put up a website and advertise myself. I will do that.

Okay, that's all for today. It's time to check my email. :-)

posted by Shirley Schuette @ 10:06 PM