Minor Adjustments

I have been feeling really overextended these past few days. Obviously the volunteer work has put me over the edge. No, that’s not it.

I don’t know if it’s obvious, but keeping up with the blogging has been really difficult lately. I have really liked this system of having multiple posts ready. Not only is having several day’s worth of content a stress reliever, but then I get multiple chances to proofread, and it makes them better. 

It is easy to do that when I am developing a theme, but lately I have been struggling. There are a lot of series that I am almost ready to start, but with things that I still need to do, so it was bugging me. I couldn’t start my Black History month writing because I was not done with the reading, and I wasn’t done with my graphic novel research, so I could not get started on that, and I was not done writing my own graphic novel, so I could not get started on that. Oh, and I am totally not prepared for the next round of music writing either.

There have been some good things about the past few days. I forced myself to get a few things (Legacy of Ashes and writing to my cousins in Italy) done that I have been procrastinating for a long time, mainly because they were things I could do relatively quickly. Also, I was not expecting to do the Trump thing, but I am kind of proud of that. It had 49 hits within two days, which is a lot for me, and I can see from the stats that people are trying the same searches I did, and so I am glad I could help. I still think someone else could do it better, but I nonetheless feel like my effort had value.

Anyway, I only had one book left for my planned history reading, but it was a long one, and I just decided not to read it, and suddenly everything feels better. I know that’s the right decision, because I was worrying over lots of things that I had to do, and none of them seem as stressful now.

Part of the issue is mission creep, and I can explain this easily with the graphic novels. I made a list of ones I thought I should read to get a good overview, and it was a decent list, but obviously it did not take everything in, which would be impossible. I kept thinking of others. I had no Gaiman on the list! How could I feel like I had even given the genre a fair shake if I hadn’t read any Gaiman? Or Miller? But did I want to read Miller?

The point is, I have given up on The Bell Curve, maybe permanently, maybe not, but why it was on the list, and what else was there, will be covered in the next post.