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It's time to retire to the study

I've spent the weekend working on my dissertation proposal...put it to bed a while ago, just in time for the Oscars (Matt Dillon is still yummy). I'm turning it in for a fellowship tomorrow. The weekend started with me thinking I'd just clean up the draft I was working with, but noooooooo. I had to tear it apart and write a whole different proposal...48 pages later and I'm a bit tired. That brings me to the point of this post. Over the past couple months, I've had an increasingly difficult time maintaining a consistent blogging schedule. I've been teaching a full load (nothing unusual with that) but also devoting more time to completing my academic work (I've been recovering academically from a depressive crisis I went through a few years ago. Finally caught up.) The past couple weeks in particular (in addition to the proposal, I cranked out a 27-page paper last weekend, graded 90 papers, and taught several classes. Something's got to give, and that something is blogging. If I'm going to finish this dissertation in the next year, I'm going to minimize my other commitments (I think that also means I'm going to miss my New Year's Resolution of dating more...but I've still got almost 10 months, so it's not dead yet.)