Am I the only person who stops mid-conversation, whenever a topic suits her fancy, to either say or think, "I should blog on that"?
I've been doing that a lot lately, and it usually happens when I'm talking to Becky. She'll ask a question, and I'll start to respond, and then I'll stop because whatever might say might be ok, but if I had time to gather my thoughts, I could blog so much more clearly and comprehensively on the same subject. What is wrong with me?
On a completely random note, I have been "instructed" to mention that my roommate is the coolest person ever because if I had never met her, I would never have learned how to mow a lawn. (Which is actually true.) So thanks, Beck. Thanks for all the good years of not killing me and not letting me kill you. Thanks for all the good months of not leaving various and sundry garments on the bathroom floor. Let the good times roll.
Tonight's blog has no purpose or thesis. I'm just killing time because I'd rather be writing than studying Hebrew. Although ironically, I used Hebrew today. I have to write this one-page chapter summary for a class, and you'd think that would be simple, but I disagree with what the guy said in his chapter, so now I'm translating part of Exodus 14 to see if I can use the real text in opposition. I'm excited that I'm starting to be able to apply my Hebrew knowledge. But I'm a little disturbed, too.
You know what it's like for people with perfect pitch who listen to virtually any sort of music? I mean, I have nowhere near perfect pitch, and if someone is sharp or flat, it bugs the crap out of me. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who know fully what pitch should be. It's like, the closer someone is to knowing something, the more aggravated he or she becomes when encountering something sub-par. It's why I can't just read any book. Badly written books will really bug me. And now Hebrew is getting like that. Before, I could just ignore preachers or teachers who said screwy things. Now, I have this obsessive need to go to the texts and figure it out. Even though I'm still relatively new to the language and, therefore, hardly educated enough to have an opinion!
Oy, with the poodles already! (That one was for you, Nicole!) Ok. I guess it's time to bite the bullet and do homework. See you all later, same bat time, same bat station.
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Oy, with the poodles already! Hee hee!
Yes, I do sometimes come across something and think, "I'll blog on that." It usually happens at a time when I'm away from a computer and won't be near one for awhile. Then, by the time I get to one, I've forgotten what I was going to blog about. Hmmm . . . maybe I should start making lists when that happens!?!
But do you see the insanity of making lists of things to talk about when you could just...gasp..talk about them? It feels so...anti-social.
I'm that way with other things, like calling people. When it's a completely wrong time to call them—like right when my work starts, or 1:30 in the morning— I'll think, "I need to call this person." But when it's actually a good time to call them, it completely slips my mind.
Then, when they eventually call me and say, "I haven't heard from you in a while," I end up thinking of some excuse why I never called them. I'm so bad.
Similarly, there's the issue of blogging, which for me has been much less frequent than before. That's largely due to having no Internet connection at work. But when I was blogging during the day, I'd stop myself all the time and think, "I should blog on that."
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