July 29th, 2005
To-Do It Up
Did you know I’ve been “blogging” for almost a year now? I started in mid-August of 2004, when the finished version of the site went live. I enjoy writing things here, but — save this explanation — I am currently in the midst of a hiatus.
You see, I also enjoy procrastinating. There are a lot of things in real, non-internet life that I’ve needed to do for a while. I remember these specific things at random intervals, but it never seems like a good time to start them, so I just stick them somewhere out of the way, and continue to surf the internet or play my guitar.
Were my brain an office, it would be a mess. Piles of papers and post-it notes and memos everywhere. I’ve been meaning to get to that stuff, believe me. I wish I could at least file it away, but the files are over-stuffed as it is.
Two weeks ago, however, this all changed. We were in New Bern visiting Steph’s family, and I was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom at her grandma’s un-air-conditioned house. By “sleeping,” I mean lying there wide awake…. It was really hot. I opened the windows to let some air in, and, as I was laying there, staring at the ceiling, a window opened for me. This window was not a window of glass and wood, mind you. Rather, it was a metaphorical window. A window of time. Wide-open, distraction-free time.
So I laid there, at the same time going over to the desk in my brain-office and started to casually go through the teetering, five-foot tall stacks of unfinished job applications, design work, car repairs, etc. when, all of the sudden, in blew a gust of worry that none of that stuff was ever going to get done. Shit was flying everywhere. I think I started hyperventilating. (You experienced procrastinators probably know this feeling. I get it once every six months.) I knew the only way I was going to get to sleep that night was to get organized. I sat up and made a list. A “to-do” list. It is long. But you’ll be happy to know that, after I was done, I slept like baby.
I’m trying my hardest to hold myself to this list. In the spirit of really “buckling-down” and “putting my nose to the grindstone,” I’m staying away from recreational internet use. Therefore there will be no updates for a few weeks.
If you’re interested in reading or rereading stuff I’ve written over the past year, I’ve archived it all. This was mainly an exercise to help me learn CSS (That was one of the things on my “to-do” list: learn some CSS. Check.), so it’s not the most thrilling design work I’ve ever done, but it’s all up right here.
As I’ve just finished going through it all and rereading a lot of it, I feel compelled to warn you: most of it is pretty stupid… Except this one. It’s actually pretty funny.
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