Wool & Words

Thanks to everyone who commented on my community musings. I've been making a real effort to get out and be among people, an effort assisted by the fact that I'm working on more community-oriented projects for my research anyway. Humanities Computing is extraordinarily tied to group endeavor. Tomorrow I'm part of a group presenting the project to the Regents System English Dept. heads, and that's so very different than the types of presentations made at formal conferences. When we met to parcel out the work, everyone considered what they could contribute to the whole endeavor. Very cool.

And a couple of days ago I spent the better part of the day working with an colleague on a project for the Economics department. It was so great! I think I would get high marks for "playing well with others".

All this to say that I neglected the nature of the work that I'm doing, that it is community-oriented, in my sense that I was supposed to be off hiding somewhere scribbling in isolation. I feel as though in the last week or so I've regained my sense of balance.

Enjoy the day!