Not dead yet
It’s so passe, or at the very least lame, to blog about not blogging, isn’t it? I guess it’s guilt that drives a blogger into the confessional, as it were, to purge & drive away the “shame” of not churning out the product (as if there’s a huge audience hanging on the sweet profundities put forth hereabouts…). It’s hubris, but as hubris goes it’s not that bad, I guess…
Anyway, as to why I’ve not been posting? It’s not because I’ve not had a whole lot of ideas bouncing around in my head. And I’ve certainly been reading a whole lot of good stuff at other folks’ blogs. And goodness knows I’d sure like to be cool like Frank (who’s been on fire lately - pun fully intended!) & snag an Issues, Etc. Blog of the Week award (talk about a selfishly lame reason for blogging!)
No, I’m gonna fall back on the old reliable “real life” (with a bit of laziness) excuse. It’s been busy, especially at work. This Fall semester has been particularly hectic for some reason, and it’s been exacerbated by the fact that I’m teaching a class for the first time, in addition to my “day job”. It’s only an online class, but it’s still presented a challenge to find the proper balance to get all the work done of managing the course in the online space, along with getting all of the grading & such done. It does help in some ways, however, that my day job is managing the staff that support the systems like the online course management system. Sometimes the cross-over has helped, sometimes it’s hindered; mostly it’s helped. I better figure it out, though, since I’m doing it again next semester… 
Anyway, that’s why I haven’t been posting what I feel like is my usual/preferred mix of theology & pop-culture, with a bit of technology & other good stuff thrown in for good measure. I don’t want to struggle too much with the “why blog?” question, and I have lately. I’ve been over thinking it a little bit, perhaps worrying a bit too much about my “audience”, as I am wont to do from time to time. I’ve been doing this for just over 4 years now, and I think there are actually some folks who’ve been reading it for almost that long (if so, God bless you for your perseverance and good taste…). I think I’ve been pretty consistent, in that I try to write what interests me more than what I think people (i.e., a “targeted audience” so as to build numbers) want to read. If I target anyone, I guess, I target bigsis, because I crave her approval, and I would like to think that I can always entertain and keep her interested. Beyond that, I guess I wouldn’t want to say/write anything to get me in trouble with my beloved, now that she’s reading , and I wouldn’t want to write anything that would cause me grief at work.
Enough introspective time in the confessional. It’s time to go watch some TV. Heroes beckons…
-ghp
Once more unto the breech
Well, my two week break is over. Tomorrow, it’s back to work (for me), school (für die Kinder), & the mud room (for Holly).
Several times during the past two weeks, I felt almost guilty, like I wasn’t getting done what I should. At those times, I tried to remind myself of why I took the two weeks off: 1) to watch the kids, so that we didn’t have to pay for daycare during their holiday break, and 2) to watch the new puppy, helping her get acclimated to her new home (esp. in the form of house-training her…).
I’m pretty sure that I’ve blogged before on my tendency to, shall we say, underperfrom/achieve in the face of large chunks of free time. This was certainly the case in the past two weeks, somewhat understandably fueled by the fact that Holly needed lots & lots of close supervision — meaning that I wasn’t able to do a whole lot of anything that required undisturbed concentration.
That all said, I’m willing to pin my rationalization (and, thus, my positive state of mind) on the vocational argument that realizes and accepts that I fulfilled the two main reasons/goals I had for taking the time off of work. Namely, I was able to watch the kids & keep from having to send them to daycare. Money was saved & lots of good time was spent with them. Second, I think that I was quite successful in helping Holly get properly integrated into her new home. She isn’t fully housetrained, but then what 10 week old pup would be? She is, however, making good progress, and seems to understand the basic premise. She is also showing herself to be much more comfortable with her new surroundings and, in particular, her new big brother Hammie. The two of them are now really starting to have fun romping & playing with each other, and then snuggling for a nap. And she’s growing like a weed, having gained a full pound in the past week, getting her up to a robust 4.2 lbs!
I know that returning to work will be a pain tomorrow (esp. given the backlog of work that’s resulted from one of my staff leaving with rather short notice recently…), but if it was all fun, it wouldn’t be work, now would it? ;^)
For those of you who might be interested, here are links to two new slideshows, one of Holly & Hammie snuggling, and the other of Holly’s first bath.
-ghp
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