When you get lazy

I didn't mean to take a break from this blog for so long. In fact, I don't think I wanted to take a break in the first place. But work kind of got in the way and then I didn't feel like writing. All I wanted to do when I was done was veg out in front of the TV or read.

And that's one of the things I have to work on: managing my energy to care about my stuff after I'm done with work, i.e. the stuff I have to do because it gives me money for food. While in grad school, I sometimes gave so much mental energy to my work responsibilities that my academic responsibilities would fall to the wayside just a bit.

Now, I'm going to get a crash course in doing this. I just started a bona fide 9 to 5 job with benefits and opportunity for growth and coworkers and a boss and everything. So I'm going to have to make the time to watch the shows I want to watch, cook, blog, read, be with family, and even do my taxes. Those things are important to me, the same way it's important for me to keep up this blog to develop my writing voice.

So to make this a little easier for me, I'm not going to force myself to come up with a SUPER IMPORTANT TAKEAWAY for each post. I feel that some things I write about here can just be observations. Maybe that's the enchantment right there: we can observe and think and no one can can tell us we can't and no one will quite see things the way we do.

So onward and upward. I'm diving in with everything I've got.