Tuesday, February 8, 2011

REMINDER!

This is what things have come to.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

I Hate It When

I'm not one for taking part in developing resolutions each year that I know will most likely be abandoned, but I had told myself that I should really start showing a bit more effort with my writing, which I guess would include the blogs.  Teaching has kept me busy to the point where I spend my free time doing, well, pretty much nothing.  I love doing nothing, but the nothingness gets old after a while.  I'm sure there's a Neverending Story joke in here somewhere, but rather than dig for it, I'll link to this picture my friend TR sent earlier today instead.

Anyway, the biggest reason for not writing anything (blogs, emails, stories) is that once I get started, I tend to eat up most of a day, which probably isn't all that good for my job.  Prepping for class doesn't take as long as it used to, but I find I keep obsessing over materials, or the specifics of what I want to talk about, or even the errands I have to run outside of class as I travel from one campus to another.  My plan of attack so far has been to try and get more organized (usually a good plan regardless), and most of these writing ideas need to come out, even if it's only a little bit at a time.  So, my goal (piss on resolutions) is to get in the habit and update more frequently, but most of the posts will probably be relatively short--maybe even tweet-length.  At least it will be progress.

I have this fortune to thank for inspiring me.





At first the fortune itself troubled me, but now I'd say I finally