Keep up the streak

I'm two posts behind. I didn't do last week's and now I have this weeks due as well.

It's a beautiful fall day. Crisp but not too cold, blessedly sunny, beautiful brightly colored leaves falling in the wind. My room is finally, finally starting to look and feel not like a disaster. I'm only a few steps away from having a working inbox that gets checked regularly. I feel like I've been working in a deep hole for a while, and I've finally almost crawled my way out of it, onto neutral ground.

But that neutral ground is actually just a much larger hole that I can then start climbing out of. I suppose you could say that I'm getting close to the point where I can put out all the fires that are cropping up around me (and continue to crop up) and begin working on the longer time horizon issues that are just as important but don't demand immediate action. Like the pile of homework that's due next summer and refinements I'd like to make to my teaching process. I'm not there yet. And frankly there's probably a long way to go till I actually get there. But I can see the end goal in the distance at least. I can see that I've made progress, and that's encouraging. The main way I've made progress in my life is tiny steps, taken one after the other, that add up over a long period of time.

OK, I think that's enough for a short catch-up post. In good habit formation style, I set the bar for my weekly post extremely low, just one sentence counts, for my streak. I'm getting pretty flexible with the timing though...

In any case, I'm going to publish this and then immediately write another short one, for the sense of completion and satisfaction it gives me, to 'keep up my streak'.  ^_^