Ryan P. Randall @foureyedsoul@scholar.social

That simultaneously seems like a good insight and profoundly unworkable, since what I consider my best products & my best ways of working have always been connected to sustained ADHD hyperfocusing… ways of using my brain & time that really aren't compatible with the daily structures that come with any life rhythm beyond 24/7 grad student living.

Here's to making new practices & dispositions, I guess?

Running with the music analogies, maybe what I need to do is *~practice~* writing like I have in the past practiced guitar / bass.

Then each article submission or conference paper would be more like playing a show or recording a song: a smaller set of movements I want to showcase, having honed and discarded related movements elsewhere.

Feeling those interdisciplinarity blues & wondering what sort of genre/form would suit the ways I think.

If academic disciplines are roughly equivalent to ways of knowing, each of which correlates to a preferred genre / mode for expressing knowledge… what's an adequately interdisciplinary form?

A dj mix? A (sequenced, unmixed) mixtape? A field recording of a listener scrolling through radio stations? A compilation / anthology with reading notes?

Clearly, the question is: what to call it?

I want the name to nod to its origins, possibly be funny, …and to be honest, possibly *discourage* its adoption by anyone who'd expect lots of maintenance / free labor from me.

Ideas so far:
- Remote Academic Mistakes
- Distance Learning
- Minimal Academics

If anyone has inspiration for names or ideas about the theme, I'm interested.

Now that I'm back in the mindset of updating my website, I might spend time the next few days / weeks making an academic-oriented fork of Minimal Mistakes^1 that incorporates some of the AcademicPages^2 techniques for creating a CV.

1: https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/
2: https://academicpages.github.io

The new version of Minimal Mistakes has a remote gem option, which basically simplifies maintenance by letting its creator update a source that everyone else's site pulls from.

As part of my emerging "hey, infrastructure" theme, I've been trying out a sort of "interface layer" between my daily tasks & my longer-term goals (weekly, monthly, choose yr fave longer-than-a-day increment).

So far I've been doing this in a single file with headers.

It simultaneously feels like a powerful addition to this way of tracking tasks & a really dangerous deviation from how I've managed everything the last few years.

https://scholar.social/@foureyedsoul/103263513789853183

Getting yr syllabi ready? Starting to grapple with what ancillary things you might model / teach in addition to what you intend?

That means it's a great time to read Erin Glass's 2018 "Ten weird tricks for resisting surveillance capitalism in and through the classroom… next term!"

(Apologies to whomever mentioned this lately; I'd give thanks directly but can't remember who you were!)

Kinda struggling to put a number of vague, big Thought Katamari inklings into sentence & paragraph form. So I put on some reliable instrumental music and everything's quickly feeling more doable.

What's the opposite of maladaptive? Beneficial adaptations?

Whatever the term is, I hope you find the things that work for you.

TFW your article proposal modulates from analytical to fiery and you simultaneously realize you've discovered what you want to say AND wonder whether it'll be better suited to a blog post than a peer-review process

What kicked this frustration up to the point of posting about it is that the third person in here, a different faculty member, just thanked her "librarians" (sweepingly referring both to me and the non-library worker in the library space).

That's… maybe a cue? Like, maybe the other person could be self-aware and ask if I need anything on that machine?

But we're a service profession. And I'm the Outreach Librarian.

So I'm here instead.

The computer in that cubicle has got all the library-related software I need on it ready to go, but she's clearly hunkered down for grading.

"What the everloving eff," is what I'd like to ask, but since I'm anxious about $otherStuff & unmedicated today, I don't trust that I'll be able to modulate my voice & facial expression sufficiently to be collegial.

So instead I'm on my personal laptop in a different cubicle since I'll be gone in a couple hours.

Petty & frustrating: we have a single cubicle reserved for library workers in one of the shared cubicle farms used for staff & instructors. It's got a HUGE "library" sign, plus a ton of library-related decorations.

I reserved the space online in our shared calendar, I show up, the rest of the cubicles are empty, and an instructor who's most certainly not a librarian is in there.

The rest are empty.