http://elisabeth.carnell.com another boring academic has a blog? Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:07:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Weblogs and the Academy: The Scope of the Professional and Boundaries of the Personal in Open, Pseudo-Anonymous, and Anonymous Blogging is coming together nicely. http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/brief-update-from-the-crazy-busy-woman/ ADHD Awareness Week is September 14-20 this year. Has anyone heard of another attempt at organizing Blogging For Kids With Disabilities like the one we had done a few years ago? Is anyone interested in being a part of one this fall (ideally, for me at least, during the aforementioned week, but ... http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/parenting-blogging-the-special-needs-edition/ Yo! Bloggers! Weblogs and the Academy: The Scope of the Professional and Boundaries of the Personal in Open, Pseudo-Anonymous, and Anonymous Blogging (see last page for contact info) The session isn't complete, yet - don't make me give a paper myself, I beg you!  :P http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/international-congress-on-medieval-studies-cfp-reminderplea/ I've had a piece accepted for the West Michigan All Area Show! And word on the street in the studio is that very few ceramics pieces were accepted -- I only know of two others at this point, and I know the work of some of the potters who were rejected ... http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/stunned-yes-yes-i-am/ But not too busy to Laugh Out Loud: LOLmanuscripts (laughed so hard I cried, I did - oh noes!) http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/too-busy-to-think-clearly/ 3066 (About 150 less than last year, but given the gas prices and recession fun times here and in surrounded states it was pretty much what we expected.) http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/aaaaand-the-total/ Ah, the rest-of-Congress post I forgot to publish before I left town for a few days. Brilliant I am, oh yes: Friday, and my hopes that all crises could be kept to Wednesday and Thursday have been dashed. *snarl* On a happier note, I not only snuck off campus for a wonderfully ... http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/doh-2/ Ah, the Congress. First day is (nearly) complete – the last sessions are happening as I type. I’ve made it through the traditional afternoon/evening of All Hell Breaks Loose, followed by All Hell Breaks Loose II: A New Day. It’s good to get the completely insane and utterly unexpected crises ... http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/hic-sunt-dracones/ (Yes, this is real and untouched. I took it myself probably 12-13 years ago -- I'm pretty sure it was the corner of Rose St. and either Cedar St. or Walnut St. I think it explains Kalamazoo rather succinctly. Once I get this whole new-blog-host thing figured out and have ... http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/welcome-back-to-kalamazoo-medievalists/ 2nd Cambridge Centre for the study of Western Esotericism Conference to be held on Saturday 11th October 2008 in the Unitarian Memorial Church in Cambridge CB1 1JW  UK WESTERN ESOTERICISM & THE ARTS Artists in the literary, musical and visual fields have long been influenced by and involved with esoteric teachings and ... http://elisabeth.carnell.com/2008/cfp-4/