Archives

That's what I like to call what I've accumulated in my office: found the textbook I used in 1990 to teach Technical Writing the first time I was at Century (called Lakewood then). I just couldn't toss it, not with my tidy marginalia: "Stress in class!" and "Note" and "Day 2 Exercise."

I've been trying to empty out the space so the sabbatical replacement can move in (he's been asking) and also so that I can start pruning my paper: like lilac bushes, take out a third every year. But I've been in that office for four years (having been across the hall in a closet for two before that), and so I have not adhered to this lilac-pruning maxim.

Today I had the following terrible-true thought: These archives must now become a potential data-source for research! "How does community college tech writing differ over the decades?" or "History of pedagogy via personal archive." I've got the artifacts. I really don't need such a project, of course, but I do need to get back to some kind of research. Get thee to the library!