Diggin' Deep

Just so that everyone is aware, I believe I neglected to send out a message regarding my last blog update. I sat down on December 30th and wrote a little ditty that you'll find below. After re-reading it today, its not quite as whiny as I had originally suspected, so we'll let it stay. By we I mean my blog quality control team, of course. They work hard for little thanks.

Yeah. You could say I'm in a weird mood this morning.

Its a new year with new excuses to be made for not blogging. I ended 2009 with some strange notion that these updates had to be masterful works of literary genius. You've got to admit, not writing well is a damn fine excuse for not blogging; more people in this world should perhaps consider it, in fact. Given that my audience is small and composed solely of friends and family, however, it stands to reason that a lack of "literary genius" now and then can be forgiven.

I've got to step it up in 2010. When a year is that hard to write, you know you have to rise to the occasion. And don't look at me like you haven't fallen prey to starting to write a 0 thinking that its "o-ten" and then have to try and squeeze a 1 in before it. The only difference between you and me is that you probably don't consider burning the paper you're writing on because the numbers aren't spaced out just so.

My point? I need bigger, better excuses this year.

... I don't have them.

What it comes down to is that I have been busier in the last three weeks than I have been in years (about two years to be exact). I'm more exhausted because I'm simply doing more, or at least that's the theory. Of course, I can throw in my usual jab at the Pacific Northwest and say that this season you people like to call winter is completely worthless in my quest to get up before 10am and feel even a remote desire to be productive. Whoever thought up this 9 hours of sunlight crap deserves a punch in the face. The overcast skies designer, too, for that matter.

That's my grand excuse of the new year: I'm busy.

The primary problem with this is that I talk so much about what exactly it is that I'm busy doing these days that it feels like I'm drumming it into the ground. I do Math Ed. Research. Its all I seem to do. I can talk at length about how problematic it is to conduct a worthwhile interview, transcribe said interview, and then say something meaningful about it. And that's not even getting into student understanding of measures of central tendency and variation and what the research literature has to say about it and blah, blah, blah, blah blah. Its never a good sign when you start to hate listening to yourself talk about something that's consuming your life.

I suppose there are other topics to write about. This is, after all, my first blog on my new laptop and I did just apply to teach at Portland Community College in the Spring quarter (not that I've heard back). ... Wait? Really? That's it? Those are the only other two updates I have? No, no, no. There must be something else.

Let's see.

Oh! My boss is out of town for a month!

And, um...

Oh yes! Alex is in school too! ... News to everyone, I'm sure.

I... have started taking my showers at night.

My atm card is demagnetized. It was due to expire this year and I want a new picture on it anyways, but its a hassle.

I'm also really into curry right now, though, at the moment I am craving a quesadilla. Or bento. Or... actually, I'm just hungry.

Aaaand, I should stop while I'm ahead. Or, you know... whatever.

Happy Belated New Year!