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April 26, 2006
My Mom is So Great :)
This morning I awoke to a concerned message on my mobile phone. It was my mom. She called to make sure that I was feeling okay. She started off her message with the following sentence, "I just read your blog and . . . " I tend to forget that my mom and my sisters are my most loyal blog readers. So hopefully when my mom reads this later tonight, she will know that I am feeling much better than I was yesterday. I will have to give her a ring and let her know. It tickles and warms my heart to know that she still likes to check in on her 26 year-old kid :)
I still have a headache and viturally no appetite, but my fever is gone (hip, hip, hooray!). Today has been spent catching up on the work that I ditched yesterday. I composed a little blurb on my ideal writing center philosophy, appropriately or not so appropriately, titled "Toward a Nomadic Writing Center." I like the idea of "Nomadism" (Rosi Braidotti writes about a Nomadic subjectivity within a feminist discourse/theory) because the WC has traditionally been located in a liminal space between the University (i.e. funding) and the classroom. And since we are a public space, we have to be grounded and situated in many places at once - we have to be prepared to cross the boundaries of gender, race and class. I don't know, exactly, how that changes the way we tutor, but I think being aware of the injustices in the university structure and greeting each student without a prescribed formula, will better prepare us to tutor writers.
I still have two more papers to go and ANOTHER presentation to give tomorrow! By the way, I have to give a shout out to Corrado for his great advice on writing and research (I 100% agree with holding off the google until we have formed our own questions, theories, claims, etc). I have to present my research on The Hamlet by William Faulkner. I am trying to write about Faulkner and the body within the framework of body and disability studies. The way he writes his bodies - and the markers that he paints on their surfaces - are quite startling and thought-provoking. I guess, though, the big question I need to answer is the following: Does reading the body in Faulkner's works change the way that we read Faulkner? I am not too sure.
This post has abolutely nothing to do with running. It's probably blasphemy to admit that I do not miss running right now on a running blog titled "eliterunning." Tomorrow I have the green light to trot for 3-4 miles, and that is all I need right now to feel fulfilled in my running life. The game plan is to run whenever and however much I want for the rest of the month. In May, we are going to build my base, and then I am going to race some 5Ks and 10Ks (I would like to run sub 19 and sub 40). In August, the marathon journey begins again :-)
Happy Running!
Posted by bridget at April 26, 2006 03:51 PM
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My dearest Bridget...thanks for the headlines...
you are my daughter and i love you dearly and i would not miss checking your blogs....as you well know i love you more than life itself and will always be by you....hugs...mom...xxxxxxxxx
Posted by: Mom at April 26, 2006 05:46 PM
Anyone who can seriously threaten 3 hours in the marathon has a sub 19 and sub 40 in them! Track, baby-do the intervals and those times will come.
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at April 26, 2006 07:37 PM
You can definitely run those times, and you can also admit anything you want here. It makes the rest of us (who have those thoughts too) feel less guilty.
Posted by: Alison at April 26, 2006 07:44 PM
I second Alison and Blondie. You definitely have sub-19 and sub-40 in you. Anyone who can do the quality miles you were putting in prior to Boston can run your goal times.
Enjoy your down time. You've earned it!
Posted by: alweiss at April 26, 2006 08:53 PM
Bridget, thank you . This mantra is said every year before the start of the Leathersman Loop race. It feels wonderful to say it out loud. Good luck with your 5k and 10k goals. You have alot of people pulling for you. :)
Posted by: DawnB at April 27, 2006 07:29 PM