Blame Murphy. I’m not usually one for joining memes but this sounded interesting, and I wanted to blog anyway. So the way it works: answer the questions, come up with eleven of my own, and tag more people to keep the game going. Sort of a chain letter but more interesting. 🙂 Right then. Here goes. […]
Try how fast it flies when you carve out writing time and then waste it doing other things. I’m so serious. Google something for research. Bam! Twenty minutes, gone in a heartbeat. Go searching for the right word and get distracted. Bam! You just burned through seventeen minutes and didn’t even see it going. Writing
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Yes, civic action is increasingly afflicted by the same perfectionist tendencies that afflict our efforts to live green or to raise healthy, happy, responsible citizens. There’s always some way to do it “better.” So effing what? All we can do is the best we can. That encompasses the fact that our ‘best’ changes from day to day. Today I can type up a blog ranting at anyone who will read to pay attention. Tomorrow maybe the best I’ll manage is a re-tweet to pass the news of something I think people need to see.
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No progress on anything. House messier, manuscript stuck, work piling up. Pondering hiding under my bed with my laptop for a week. But here. Have some good news. More broadly, Obama said he was determined to build a new structure for executive oversight that would last beyond his presidency, preempting the problems he currently confronts
It’s really not helpful. I have to be at work at 0800 Monday through Friday. But my writing mind really doesn’t want to get moving before, say, 2100. I can try all day (believe me, I did) to get somewhere, but the good stuff doesn’t want to come till at least sunset. Meh. 425 words
When I was finally happy with the blog (isn’t it purty??!?), I at last turned back to my re-write. Well, after I washed the dishes. Straightened my room. Fought with the dryer-fuse issue. Found my drill, but decided to stay off ladders while home alone, as I am not as graceful as I like to
Or in this case, Craigslist. Quoting from this site: I’ve seen you on the train before about 6:00 6:30 dressed in a suit or corporate casual clothes. You’re tall for Asian, goodlooking, and always listening to your Ipod. I’d love to meet for a drink sometime and take it from there. Hint: Ask the wizard
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