I really was going somewhere with that thought, lo these many weeks ago. But, in typical acafanmom fashion, RL intervened. I'm back from our 10 day incarceration visit with family in California (requisite trips to the Orange County Fair, Disneyland, the casinos of San Diego County, and Las Vegas inclusive), and now I'm struggling to put together a survey-level film studies syllabus. I'm used to talking first about film language, so having to bump that in favor of a more generic, broader overview of "film" is a bit counterintuitive. 

I'm hoping to pick up my thought, though - or, at least, parlay it in a different direction - soon. Once classes are underway and kids are back in school. I find myself wondering how FT academics do this with children in the mix; Amanda Klein works through some thoughts on this on her blog, which ties in to a panel she did with Jason Mittell at Console-ing Passions, but it speaks to people on the tenure track. I can't help but feel that we need to have this kind of conversation at the independent scholar level, but, then, I can't help but think that we have to talk about independent scholarship more seriously period.