Day 22 blog post tally reflections

What I (re)learn every November is that every month is a #WriMo. One year I attempted tracking word counts on Facebook and Twitter . That was tedious, trying and tiresome. It also showed that a) I was spending way too much time on Facebook; b) although variable, comment quality tended to be less developed than on blog posts, discussion fora or listservs; and c) escapes me at the moment.

Writing Text Map Of The World Map ~ Digital Art © Michael Tompsett

Still resisting writing in emoji

• OLWeekly, November 21, 2014, by Stephen Downes - 11/22/2014
• Sign of the times: #adjunct #jobfair... - 11/22/2014

• Smarter Balanced: Lacking Smarts; Precariously Balanced - 11/22/2014
• High school “graduates” with reading skills unready for college – just another example of the damage to a child’s future when teachers have to accept administrative forced promotion of failing students - 11/22/2014
• UNESCO and the Education Technology Industry: A Recipe for Making Public Education a Profiteering Enterprise. PART III - 11/22/2014
• Reviewing The Teacher Wars, a History of America’s Most Embattled Profession - 11/22/2014

Dispatch from the #WriMo Zone Miasma, Day 20

Blade Runner Tribute ©Hideyoshi, Deviant Arty

The subject line indicates of my frame of mind accurately ~ as does my image choice, Blade Runner Tribute over initial (more ironic) choice, Ivory Tower (same artist).

Instead of blogging, I've been napping, surfing, browsing Dr Who pages and back episodes. I did get out two Precarity Dispatch posts, including a beastly long COCAL Updates double header, albeit with fewer potholes to patch, and an Adjunct Stories. I set up another PD ~ #HigherEd in the News ~ to have on hold.

• Joe Berry's COCAL Updates double header: Nov 18-19, 2014 - 11/20/2014
• #CampusProtests in the News—CA, across the nation & globally - 11/20/2014
• Dr #Adjunct or How I Learned to Stop Suffering & ❤ #CollectiveBargaining - 11/20/2014

Once posted, I will not even think about dashing over to blog about something. Sleep is coming on.

Day 19 Dispatch from the #WriMo Zone

Plus set up the next COCAL Updates in drafts ~ a double header. Part, November 19, is reasonably well ordered but Part, November 18, will take more work. I noticed three international news down among the other links and not up with "International."

There are other odd gaps there too: no reference to ISM Week of Global Action or the Insecure Work Conference, Filling them is not my problem although I will probably continue to add fill when a section looks too naked. After all, Updates now go out on the PD in on my network.

I'm still not getting back to community blogging, although the overlap is increasing and I share to the community pages from the ed ones. I sense that the all open and together mode G+ encourages that.

Let me task myself with a community post tomorrow then. A short one, better than none at all...

Blogged today

Day 18 Dispatch from the #WriMo Zone

Surprised to be here for Day 18…so sure I'd missed it, crashing before 8 pm. Between COPD and fibro, no matter when evening fatigue hits, I yield. It's time to stop referring to it as just being "very tired."

I woke up before midnight so will, once again, make it under the wire. The effect on my sleep patterns does not bear thinking about so I won't. What staying up through the night will do my my heating bill does though. December-February could be months of multiple indoor layers and knit caps indoors. Winter already seems more tiring this year.

After posting here, I'll move over to precarious faculty to catch up: NTEU Insecure Work Conference in Tasmania, Northern NM College, Education Bloggers Network, NME teleconference, an Updates Update (would that be Updates²?)

November has been trimmed to personal blogging challenges of sorts and (still not minimal enough) social media tending. Courses and other projects are more or less out the window. I'm ready to hang up on NaNoWriMo too, although I should try for a completion this year to go out with 10 straight.

from the archives, 2009: Judith Gappa & Rich Moser

Day 17 in the #WriMo Zone, downhill run

Day 17 ~ The number 17 has wide significance in pure mathematics, as well as in applied sciences, law, music, religion, sports, and other cultural phenomena.  On November 17 in history ~ rather a lot happened 473 -- 1971.

• Sunday Matinee: teacher movies, 1939-1988; 
• Joe Berry's COCAL Updates, November 14; 
• ISM Week or Global Activities announced

Day 15 in the #WriMo Zone, Midpoint

Day 15

Day 12 in the #WriMo Zone

Day 12 ~ now to find a spiffy 12 and be done with it...

• #adjunct & student actions & other happenings here there & everywhere - 11/12/2014

• Final Chat Meeting: sharing updates & last coordinations ~ As the Adjunctiverse Turns - 11/12/2014

• Towards an Economy Without Jobs? ~ As the Adjunctiverse Turns - 11/12/2014

• Dodd-Frank and the new Republican Majority ~ Vanessa's Blogueria - 11/12/2014

Dispatch from the off-line #WriMo Zone, Day 7

Seven, today's number, returns to realm of symbolically loaded numbers: Lucky 7 (sure hope so as today is also Disconnect Day 2); seven days of the week; numerology life cyles are 7 years; the same number of years for all the cells in the human body replace themselves (not all at once, obviously); Pi is 22 divided by 7; vowels sometimes reckoned as seven; waxing and waning of the moon in two 14 day periods; and more. The handiest (e.g. first found) dictionary of myth (Chetwynd) has a Numbers entry but not ones for separate numbers. Cirlot, which I also have somewhere, does.

"The Unconscious has an uncanny grasp of numbers As with patterns, numbers are at the roots of letters. Each letter of the alphabet is also a number, which makes for magical (and imaginal) computations and associations, especially with regard to names..."

Dispatch from the off-line #WriMo Zone, Day 6

Today's number is 6, not as exciting or loaded with portent as yesterday's 5. That it symbolizes both ambivalence and equilibrium seems somehow appropriate. The real obstacle is not being connected. tl;dr.

Blame it on CenturyLink. I'm definitely not happy about it but helpless to do anything. The disconnect should be resolved by now but is not. If I can't connect by midnight, I'll have blown November #nablopomo challenge, even though I am now writing it now. On the other hand, the challenge is for me -- not BlogHer. I'll write off-line and post when I can with a scheduled back date. If that does not count for BlogHer, it still does for me.

The lessons of the challenge are to show myself I can still do it, train or retrain myself to sit down and plow through no matter what, work out my own personal toolkit (or blogger's sonic screwdriver) of tricks and fall back formulas for post. These posts are formulas. Boring when I go through the motions but fun when I get engaged and inventive plugging in the elements. Yesterday it was with number symbolism, "this day in history" and Guy Fawkes Day.

There's something poisonous in being so serious and always earnest. The condition may be inescapable on precarious faculty, but I intend to avoid it here.

November 6 in history