Following up on my previous blog entry, I've been thinking about the issue of blog sustainability. Why do some people keep blogging while so many other people drop out of the act. Myself, I'm an infrequent blogger at best. I enjoy writing in my blog while I'm doing it, but I never seem to find a way to make writing in my blog a habit. Most professional novelists will tell you that they write every day at a certain for a set amount of words or a set time period. But as a novelist, one has the time to dedicate to writing consistently.
As a chair, my time is always in flux. For a chair, what is consistent is chaos. Every day, things change. Just when I get some free time, someone will walk into my office with a new crisis or the dean will call and totally screw up my scheduling plans and I'll need to start from scratch. That's daily life as a chair, chaos.
Over time, hopefully a chair learns to carve out time. It's nice to teach while chairing, if you can find the time, because at least that guarantees the chair an hour or two away from the chair worries. The trick, then, is leaving behind the chair concerns so one can focus on teaching. That's a hard trick to master!
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