I’m currently sitting with Rosanna and talking to her about all that we need to finish by next week.

I looked back through our Coggle to see exactly what pages I was assigned to complete myself:

  • “About the Author” subpages
  • “About the Researchers” Mini Bios (CHECK!)
  • “About the Research” page (I think I just have a little more to add to that…)
  • “Literary Critique” (We’re actually going to change that one to “About the Book” so it sounds less academic.)
  • “About Buncombe” (So I’ll be going back to look at the demographics we found for Buncombe County and add what we found on The State of Black Asheville.)
  • I need to make sure that all of the images I wanted to put on the website get on the appropriate pages. I think I’ll feel better about picking where to place each photo once all the writing is complete.
  • And I’ll be making sure that all of our timelines are up on the website.

Before I looked that over, I was feeling kind of overwhelmed about the upcoming weekend, but now everything feels much more feasible to get done since I listed it out.

Originally, I was feeling the most overwhelmed with the “About the Author” subpages. I think that since I’ve learned so much about Toni Morrison, I want to put down everything, but that felt intimidating. Rosanna helped me think about ways to find a focus and keep things more succinct. I guess the literary academic in me just wants to make those pages more detailed than what they need to be in reality.

Rosanna is still contacting Lisa Baldwin to set up an interview with her so we can get that up on the website before it’s due. Whether or not that happens is out of our hands for the most part. But it sounds like Rosanna is remaining persistent with it all.

Rosanna is also going to work on getting an updated headshot of herself to put on the “About the Researchers” page.

We also discussed putting the interview transcriptions onto actual pages instead of Google Doc files, per Dr. Dierking’s suggestion.

As for finding time to get everything done over the weekend…that’s going to be a bit of a challenge. The daycare will be closed on Friday, which was when I was originally thinking I’d get a lot of this finished. That’s my fault for not double-checking to ensure all of my calendars matched up, but I’m going to adapt to all of this. I figured the best use of my time right now would be to make sure that this blog post gets done before Monday since I’ll be traveling that day. However, I will be arriving at my destination considerably early if everything works out as planned, so I can work on the website a bit more then if need be. During the weekend, I can work on the website a little here and a little there during my daughter’s nap time. And I’ve gotten into the routine of reading my literature assignments under the covers while my daughter sleeps at night (we co-sleep), so getting my work done for other classes shouldn’t be a problem.

We’ll get everything done. I don’t have too many worries. It’s a matter of taking advantage of all of the time that I do have available to me and balancing that with proper self-care.

Craggy Gardens at the Blue Ridge Parkway. Photo taken by me.