Babies are closing in on three weeks old, and their schedule seems to be settling into "the new normal." What that also means is that I have to settle into some sort of new normal that involves teaching, grading, writing up research and still finidng time to snuggle up to little ones. Of course those of you with kids out there know that already, don't you?

So I'm grading, slowly, already. I'm finding that grading with an infant in one arm is harder than it looks.

I'm also looking at writing up a conference paper idea or two that I've been working on. The most recent MLA newsletter has a particularly juicy panel called "Feminists on and in Love" that would work really well for the updated version of the article on staged representations of feminist heterosexual desire. Plus, I'm trying to find a piece that might be appropriate for the Comparative Drama Conference at Ohio State, but the deadline for that is mid-December, and I've got other things on my plate right now.