Life
The Writings on the Wall
I’m a dork. A forgetful, live in the moment, swiss cheese brained dork. And there’s no way around that at all.
Which is why I’ve decided that having a poster up on my wall with a list of things that need to get done on a semi-regular basis might be a good idea. I’ve had success with putting signs on the wall before (”Don’t forget your keys, dumbass” was the best one in both working-ness and cool-ness), so I’m 99% sure that it’ll work.
The problem is figuring out what to put on the poster. Some things like “Go to class” are so common that I don’t think they should take up space. “Make your Winthrop payment” are important, but it doesn’t happen often enough to where I think it needs to be there.
Finding that balance is hard. I’d love to have some ideas for what should go on there. The only thing I know will be there now is “Update GnuCash” because there’s no point in having it if I don’t use it.
Sapid Existence at Successful Blog
I’ve submitted Sapid Existence to Liz Strauss’ Blog-to Show. That was the easy part. The hard part is waiting another few hours to see what comes out of that. I guess my expecting to see it when I woke up is another example to egocentric thinking.
I’m hoping that things go well with that. I’ve gotten some some responses that have made me very happy, most recently this one from SuRi:
I wonder if you are planning a future in professinal sports photography. I know you have been published in your school newspaper from previous posts, but your sports photos are good enough to be in sports magazines (not that I look at many of those, but my husband does and your shots are right up there with sports illustrated)
Every time I hear that, I start to wonder if it’s something I should persue more activly. So if anyone knows where I can tart to do that in a place other than with newspapers I would love to hear about it. I just don’t want newspapers because I like to have a few days to go over my stuff and get it ready.
Fun With Google
I was relatively bored, so I decided to search for my name in Google. The results were a bit surprising.
I don’t expect to beat people who have the name in the domain name. But I’m #3 and 5! How sweet is that?
Out of more curiosity, I tried the image search. Again, happiness. Nothing on Page 1 or anything like that, but I do have two on Page 2 (this post and this other post on Sapid Existence) and Page 4 had this one, although why it picked up on the archive for that day and not just the post itself is beyond me.
But not all is happy. I guess I need to start watching myself now. Potential employers can very easily look me up. And with those two other blogs of mine linking here, I’ll probably need to watch myself here too. Oh well, I think I can live with that.
A Threat, A Promise
It figures that right after I restart raise this blog from the dead Lorelle has a post about why people stop blogging. I guess it could be sad, but I prefer to see things another way.
I think that the decision to end a blog depends partly on the reason why it was started in the first place. Juggle Chainsaws will stop when there’s nothing I can do with programming stuff anymore. Sapid Existence will stop when the photography stops (which could be the day I die, we’ll see about that).
As for this, it’s a whole different ballgame. I started this as a collection of thoughts. Eventually that could either prove to be too much to keep up with because of other commitments taking over my time or I could just get into a line of work where I don’t have much to say that wouldn’t jeopardize my career. I’m already close to that working at a preschool now, but I’ve got Winthrop to fuel a lot of things.
So, about the title…. For one thing, I thought that it just sounded better than just having it be “A Promise.” It makes it more of a necessary thing in my mind. So, I promise/threaten to keep writing this blog until either the passion runs out or I just don’t have time for it anymore. And when that happens, I promise not to just kill it. Instead, I’ll put up a notice of absense letting you know that I’m taking a vacation from blogging. If you are taking the time to read this, then you deserve to see if I’ll be updating in the foreseeable future.