Wednesday, September 11, 2002

 
So today I have voicemail from my boss saying she was wrong, the sabbatical deadline HASN"T passed. So looks like I will be submitting it after all. And after I'd pretty much divorced myself from it emotionally. It's going to be hard to ramp up the enthusiasm again. I need to break it down into tasks. It occurred to me this morning that I am headed down a path with has ruined projects in the past: getting carried away with data gathering and the expense of making a small chunk of it actually work. I need to get at least a small demo of the thing working as a proof of concept. And it is going to be hard.

This morning when we arrived on campus, the carillon was bonging ver-r-r-r-ry slowly-- about one bong every 20 seconds. Had been doing that since 8:46 AM. It really affected me. It brought back the feelings of last year so vividly. I was surprised that there was such an emotional wallop still locked in there. I can hear the carillon perfectly from my office, so it just went on and on. It was a relief when it finally stopped at around 10:30 so I could concentrate on work.
posted by Suzy 12:20 PM

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

 
Poor Swamp Oriole. You are suffering from sibling rivalry with my other blog (which shall remain nameless here, for now). And I'm afraid I've let the sabbatical deadline fiasco dampen my enthusiasm for the project. I haven't heard anything more about the Eisner Symposium for next year, which I could use as a deadline if I were sure it was going to happen. And then today, I found something on the web with a whole lot of disjointed Sandman information that needs to be taken into account, but which will be very hard to pin down. This was in one of Neil's FAQ;s. If I were smart, I'd put the URL here so I could find it again easily. But I'm feeling rather dim at the moment.

posted by Suzy 10:05 PM