Writing partner...

14 February 2023: A student came to see me to talk about her ENGL 301 Annotated Bibliography. There were long stretches of time when she just worked on her own, quietly revising based on what we had just discussed. During one stretch, I turned my attention to a paragraph I had been trying (unsuccessfully) to draft in the time before she showed up. And darn it if I didn't have a mini-breakthrough. I told her as much and said it reminded me of dissertation writing dates at Panera with my grad school friends. Maybe I need to find a way to make some version of that come back for me.