Friday Afternoon Confessional: April snow showers

I confess that yesterday, instead of working on a paper I’ll be presenting in a few days, I took a nap and then watched Trailer Park Boys. It’s all part of my holistic writing process.

I confess that I ran out of cereal yesterday and will therefore be having a brownie for breakfast today, solely out of grim necessity.

I confess that I keep on failing to learn my lesson when it comes to reading comments on my Inside Higher Ed articles. The bigger the site, the less useful the comments are — or more accurately, the more likely that they’re going to be a space for readers to vent (which is useful to them!) rather than actually discuss in good faith. I confess that good-faith discussion is much more difficult and rare than one would think, given the value our society supposedly places on it.

I confess that I wake up with The Girlfriend every morning, because I usually can’t get back to sleep once she starts getting ready. As a result, my internal clock is now set to wake up at six o’clock in the morning — even on weekends. My body also expects to go to sleep a little over eight hours before that wake-up time. I’ve never been much of a night-owl, but sometimes it feels ridiculous.

I confess that I am still looking for a replacement confessor. Please e-mail me at akotsko at gmail dot com if you are interested.

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