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I continue to look over my LinkedIN profile, examining it in the light of making it a better representation of the me I would see get jobs and offer them to other people. When I initially signed up for the platform, I did so thinking I would use it as a kind of back door to promote myself as an academic, so I joined a number of groups that were relevant to my interests and to my perceived identity as a scholar who had an eye for the outside world--some eleven, as it happened:

• Modern Languages Association (Unofficial) Networking Group
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies Group
• Language, Literature, and Criticism
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette Alumni Group
• NCTE
• Literature
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Community, Career, Technical, Vocational College Network
• Sigma Tau Delta
• English Language & Literature
• Lecturers and Instructors in Humanities

Given my shifts in affiliation, as well as concerns of over-extension and the simple fact of groups going inactive, it seems appropriate for me to remove some of the group enrollments I have had. The last seems the easiest to address; there is little point in remaining aligned to groups that no longer function. Consequently, I remove myself from those groups showing up as "unlisted" on the platform, leaving me in

• Modern Languages Association (Unofficial) Networking Group
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies Group
• Language, Literature, and Criticism
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette Alumni Group
• NCTE
• Literature
• Community, Career, Technical, Vocational College Network
• Sigma Tau Delta
• English Language & Literature

That still seems more than I ought to be trying at the moment, so I pruned more from the list. My shifting affiliation--namely my removal of myself from consideration for mainstream academic work--led me to excise a few more groups from my list, leaving me enrolled in

• Medieval and Renaissance Studies Group
• Language, Literature, and Criticism
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette Alumni Group
• Literature
• Community, Career, Technical, Vocational College Network
• Sigma Tau Delta
• English Language & Literature

Seven groups is manageable, to be sure. But I am still not sure the affiliations are what I need them to be. It is something to which I shall have to return--and I do not mind taking a bit more time. Rushing into things is what led me to be so scattered to start with; it will be good to slow down a bit.