Here’s the thing:
I am a lazy person. I am a procrastinator. I have problems with my attention span. So, when something new (shiny or not) comes along and I feel diverted, diverted is where I say, until I’m diverted to the next thing. I’m very good at 90%. I was a 90% student in school and that seemed like all that was possible. It’s ingrained. But that doesn’t always work too well in blog format if that missing tenner involves falling off a cliff completely. This is not meant to expressly apologize to any of my loyal readers; it’s a part of who I am and I’m working on it but it makes me…more of…myself, which isn’t always the greatest for those attempting to follow my bloggy-style.
So. Here are some new rules:
- In order to do this more often and not feel like it is such a damn project every time I log in, I won’t be editing my posts to the nth degree like I used to. If that’s possible. Crap. I just re-did that first paragraph three times. We’ll see.
- Not so many posts about things, buying things, wanting things, etc, from here on out. It’s cool but it shouldn’t be defining.
- Get outside of myself more often. Read other stuff that people are writing and get myself involved in the conversation. I’m very, very good at staying in the corner. But when I’m out of it, I’m also quite good at being elsewhere in the room.
That said, enough of the meta. Here’s what’s been up lately, condensed:
I’ve moved twice. From Atlanta to a house that I was supposed to buy in Marietta which turned out to be a nightmare and fell through and I’m not particularly up for talking about, to my grandmother’s former house right off the Marietta square. Holding down the fort there for the next few months and pondering what to do next. And it’s a lovely fort. I have until May to decide whether to move back to the ATL, which looks increasingly likely, or go elsewhere, which looks somewhat likely. Marietta is no longer an option, however. It’s a charming hometown but it’s just…time to commit myself to something else for awhile.
I’ve fallen back on photography a bit, for two reasons: a) I felt like I was close to burning myself out or up with it back in the summertime, and b) with everything else that’s happened in the past six months it has had to take a back seat anyway. But, I have some interesting projects coming up in the next few months that I’ll be sharing.
I’ve been in a sort of limbo with some other things but am making a major push at self-betterment. That means new jobs, new places, new learning. And, once again, I’d like to share some of that.
I’ve been reading some new internets to catch me up. Here are a few that I find particularly inspiring:
- ProLost. All that is innovative in modern video capture, especially when considering the new breed of DSLR’s that support HD video.
- HD for Indies. Ditto.
- Paleo Future. Oh my god, if anyone ever wants to know what gets me going in my mindgrapes, it’s reading about past interpretations of the future, in the present.
Huh. Those top two were video-related. Yeah, I’ve been thinking about getting back into that a lot more lately. More to come.
And WOW! I feel fulfilled right now and this post only took a fraction of what I used to dedicate! It might be proportionately worse, I dunno…but I’ll leave that up to you. Speak soon.
