I’m fueled quite a bit by negative northeast spiteful energy, Catholic guilt, and love of language

Self-talk about research = some combo between the above. Def a “gfys” energy oscillating with “wow! How exciting and cool it is to think about this stuff”. Sort of all over the place. #teamrhetoric

My self-talk about teaching = “can’t wait to grow with all of my students as readers and writers! 😍😍😍” My self-talk about admin =

It's publication week! Promoting my book feels weird, but I want people to know about these writers who have told important stories about the evangelical movement -- so when I feel awkward about talking the book I think of it as promoting their work . #teamrhetoricus.amazon.com/Grew-Up-Chur...

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Another nugget, this time from March 20, 1997 dept meeting: "[PROFESSOR] commented that e-email is sometimes invasive. For example, people expect immediate answers."

As a teenager, I was really interested in being a journalist. On "practical" and "financial" grounds, I decided against it only to...go into academia??

Felt sad reading this in some archival research I'm doing: "Reuter Foundation event for March 30, 1995: 'Journalism in Cyberspace: New Media, New Challenges, New Jobs?'" Not sure that last 'new' worked out so much (at least in terms of quantity)

The technical sense of rhetoric is crucial but can too easily cover over a deeper sense of the epistemological and ontological dimensions of language and writing

What does writing do for what we think/feel? How does it help us understand the world around us and our place in it?