posted 2007/09/27 at 23:59
I've not felt that good about the recent lack of updates here. I figured that adding my teaching gig to my schedule was going to make things difficult for me in terms of fitting things in, but these past few weeks I've just been so busy I don't know what to do with myself. Things should get better next year when I get done with all the freelance writing I've been doing and some other projects, but then again the main reason for me leaving the freelance gigs is so I can teach more classes. In the meantime I've been neglecting a number of things, and this Website is certainly near the top of that list. I made a special effort earlier this year to really take this Website more professionally, particularly as I was re-entering the job market then and ran under the assumption that potential employers would find this Website. I redesigned the Website to look more professional, and I went from a more conversational and abrupt tone to my entries to something a bit more measured and flowing and lyrical. (That's what I'd like to think, at least; part of me worries that I'm being long-winded here to make up for the fact that I'm not writing huge English papers any longer.) If I don't keep this Website updated, though, in addition to risking alienating long-term readers, I also don't put out that good an image to others.
The real culprit lately has been my dance games. On the one hand, I do seem to be spending an absurd amount of time playing them lately, but at the same time I'm starting to fit into clothes that haven't fit me in years, and I'm making tremendous progress in terms of the way dance games measure player performance. I'm also concerned because I generally feel less comfortable playing out in the garage at night, since I have to walk outside a bit to the garage, and the garage isn't climate-controlled that well. When it gets to be freezing outside I really don't like going out there to work out, so I figure that I should be getting in as much exercise as I can now, while it's still relatively warm outside. In the meantime, though, that just leaves a lot less time for other stuff.
Given all of this stuff I'm doing (and yes, there's something else going on here that I'm not going to tell you scamps about), it's kind of funny that I'm actually starting to look at going back to school next year. I should probably write a whole entry on that (if not a .journal article), but I can't help but look at all the opportunities I have here to do some realy cool stuff and think to myself that I should at least try applying to a couple of places and see what happens. If nothing else, schools generally don't accept GRE scores five years after the test date, and I'm not sure I can duplicate the lights-out performance I had back when I first took the test in 2003. I'd have to do some serious writing to get into these schools, though, and that just gets back to the whole issue of me not having enough time for much of anything these days. I know, I'm just like everyone else in that regard, but it still stinks.
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