m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

My job with SMU has ended for at least a couple of months. It’s a mixed blessing. I will definitely miss the money, but I won’t miss working those 20 hours each week combined with the end of the semester workload. On the plus side, this will certainly help me finish everything on my plate [...]

When studying, to avoid losing huge quantities of time: 1. Set a timer. 2. When the timer goes off, ask yourself “am I going down a bunny trail?” I have been doing A LOT of reading and thinking about my networked rhetorics class and was almost ready to post, but then realized I went down [...]

I’m inspired and need to figure out how to use my time more efficiently. Resources/Suggestions: 1. Keep a timesheet like jill/txt. Keeping a timesheet like this might help me focus myself and recognize where I might recapture blocks of time. Update: I originally meant this as a completely serious comment; now with her humorous rif [...]

I’ve been hanging onto a blog post by John Porcaro that I’d printed about Bill Jenson’s book, The Simplicity Survival Handbook. I wanted to remember his advice regarding email that gets acted upon. Know, Feel, Do: 1. Tell me the one thing you want me to know. 2. Tell me why I should care. 3. [...]