{"id":590,"date":"2006-04-11T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2006-04-11T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T04:34:00","slug":"daily-shoulds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/11\/daily-shoulds\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Shoulds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a point where doing everything is just too blooming overwhelming. There&#8217;s so much that you should be doing that you can&#8217;t even figure out what all it is that you are so anxious about not getting done. So in this confused mood, I decided to go about making a list of it all. Not the work minutia. That stuff has its own special list in a circa notebook. Just some of the rest of it. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>figure out Lubbock\n<ul>\n<li>research the details on the dorm&#8212;there seems to be no Internet access. Presumably there is a phone; so in theory there would be dial-up. Can I survive dial-up? Is there A\/C? You don&#8217;t want to see me w\/o A\/C. Is there an elevator? With my back and knees, there&#8217;s no way I can drag things up the stairs. What would I do about cold water\/soda? Is an ice chest a realistic option? Any details on the, um, facilities? I have privacy issues.\n<li>research the details on the hotel(s), which generally amounts to many of the same questions, highlighted by the key question: Can I possibly afford this? Is all the fun stuff going to happen in the dorm, like ISU? Thus is the hotel going to be the unhip place to be?\n<li>research the driving details&#8212;how long does this drive take again? Can I manage the vast emptiness by myself?\n<li>work magic with my check books to try to figure out money issues.\n<li>figure out when exactly I am going to create my presentation. And can I possibily sound intelligent? I haven&#8217;t written anything but lesson plans in a very long time.\n<li>work on my little mac (and pray) so that I can write during sessions if I do end up in Lubbock.\n<\/ul>\n<li>write that book manuscript before I am beaten and fired.\n<li>clean the filth that is my kitchen.\n<li>clean up the basement.\n<li>create two Flash interactives.\n<li>deal with the mounds of laundry that need to be put away.\n<li>bury the mounds of clothes that don&#8217;t fit.\n<li>figure out my eating, because right now I am a whale.\n<li>find some way to make this burping, acid, bloaty horror stop.\n<li>make a sign that says, &#8216;no matter how tempting, never eat pizza or tomato sauce of any kind again.&#8217; I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking, but the horror of the pizza I ate tonight wasn&#8217;t worth it. Why couldn&#8217;t I be ill when I eat all the wrong things so that I could turn into a Barbie?\n<li>schedule a hair cut.\n<li>write some EconEdLink lesson plans to pay for all this nonsense.\n<li>get some lawn work taken care of, because it&#8217;s an unpolished jungle out there.\n<li>clean out the garage, which is also an unpolished disaster. Be sure to put new plastic on those windows too.\n<li>figure out how to pay to get the stuff that needs painted on this house all painted.\n<li>figure out why I&#8217;m not getting any of this stuff done.\n<\/ul>\n<p>:( One day maybe I&#8217;ll have my act together. Instead, I can&#8217;t seem to do anything but be overwhelmed by it all. I&#8217;m sure that i&#8217;ve left out dozens of things too :( I&#8217;m such a nonsensical disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a point where doing everything is just too blooming overwhelming. There&#8217;s so much that you should be doing that you can&#8217;t even figure out what all it is that you are so anxious about not getting done. So in this confused mood, I decided to go about making a list of it all. 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