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Where Are the Joy of Science Discussion Posts?

Category: Joy of Science
Posted on: June 13, 2007 11:43 AM, by Zuska

So, last week I posted the Week 4 Joy of Science reading summaries and since then...nothing. No JoS discussion posts. What's up with that?

I'd say procrastination, but then you'd ask, "why?" I seem to be having an extraordinarily difficult time writing up my discussion of these readings; I know some of the reasons why, which I'll mention in one of the discussion posts, but I'm not really sure why. Writer's block? Weather too nice, would rather play in the garden? But suddenly there are a zillion other things I'd rather blog about, and it's been stormy the last two days, so those can't be the only excuses.

Well, whatever; please have a little patience and I hope I will have my discussion pieces out soon.