Hello everyone, hope the end of term madness isn't too overwhelming for those in the middle of it! This post is just a quick announcement about the next session of this TLQ group.
It will be jointly hosted/compered by myself and Contingent Cassandra (taking alternate weeks, mostly) and will run from Saturday 16th May to Saturday 28th August. There will be a pre-session post next week for those who have recovered enough to want to start planning their summer writing and other TLQ activities, so it won't go silent over here.
Most people (including CC and myself) will be taking breaks over the summer at some point, and that is no bar to joining in and taking part - just let us know in the comments for the week when you'll next be reporting back. And as ever, we aim to be an open group for anyone wanting a little support and company with the ongoing juggling act of finding time and space for important, non-urgent activities, including both writing and self-care - so do please feel free to announce the new session in your blogs, link to this post, recommend the group to bloggers you read who are wondering about their summer plans or feeling a bit isolated and unsupported in their research, and generally let people know they are welcome to join in.
And now I have to go read some 12,000 word projects. I opened the first one yesterday but the abstract appeared to have been written by a process involving a lot of very illiterate monkeys sitting around on a keyboard, with a careless garnish of punctuation added after the fact, which was kind of off-putting (I get this faint psychic impression of an indignant student saying "but I'm a scientist, why do we have to do WRITING?" and "no-one cares about this except old people" <--- response: your future boss will probably be an old person. Your markers, who are both under 50, are also apparently old people because they do care. So your point MAY be accurate but I don't see how it's relevant). So I look forward very much to talking about SUMMER PLANS next week with you all!
I'd like to join.
ReplyDeleteWelcome! :-)
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ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting the new TLQ session, JaneB and Contingent Cassandra. Also, thank you very much for hosting the last one, Amstr and Susan. I was not able to check-in last a couple of weeks of the last session, I regret this, but I would like to join the next session again. Though I am not a diligent participant, thinking that I am a member of this group, and there other people who also try to work, live, and survive in their own academic environments always encourages me.
You are very welcome. Sometimes keeping trying is all we can do!
DeleteThanks, JaneB! I am looking forward the next session!
DeleteCount me in! I plan to be intensely productive in June, off the grid for a few weeks of late July and early August, and then intensely productive when I get back. It's go time for the thesis!! Thanks to both of you for hosting.
ReplyDeleteWelcome - and here's to the Summer of Thesis!
DeleteCount me in as well! I hope to be productive all summer, with smidgens of breaks here and there. I definitely need the accountability.
ReplyDeleteGreat summer to everyone, and especially go thesis to GEW!! Thesis or book, I'll be right there with you. :)
Nice to have you with us again... and seconding the need for accountability!
DeleteI'd love to join in as well! I have 4 chapters left of my dissertation to write this summer, and I need all the encouragement and accountability I can get. :D
ReplyDeleteWelcome! Another Summer of Thesis ahead... we can certainly manage encouragement along the way!
DeleteHi Lena! *waves* Good to see you here!
ReplyDeleteI'm in (obviously, since I'm co-hosting). Welcome to all; Jane is being a much better hostess than I am at this point, but I promise to get my heading above the grading waters soon.
ReplyDeleteHi all, love being part of the group. hoping the summer is a good one for you all, which wil help me get through the winter. And actually, winter should be a great writing time for me, no summer fieldwork, so really a time to think and write. . . allan wilson
ReplyDeleteHi all, I'd like to have a go - with the warning that I'm on southern hemisphere time, so it will be winter (hopefully not of discontent) and going across the end of semester one/beginning of semester two. This is such a great initiative for those in need of low pressure accountability, and seems like a generous and supportive group. Thanks! karenh
ReplyDeleteI'd love to join in, though I feel somewhat academic-adjacent at the moment (I am applying to teach a literature class through a SLAC online, though).
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