Curiosity about my recent lack of blogs.

I continue to get further and further behind. I wonder why that is? Have I gotten less interested in blogging? Not really. Or decided that it's less important? Maybe? But that doesn't quite feel like it either. I think I've just gotten out of the habit of doing it, and I've had a long stretch where I've been really trying to get a few big important projects completed, and so a lot of the little things have fallen by the wayside, while I focus on them. Plus changes to my routine, from breaks or what-not, have gotten me out of my normal pacing.

This hasn't been with just blogging. My weekly review, watering the plants, cleaning the cat water bowl (we've got a fountain one, which has a filter and a large reservoir, so it's possible to just leave it for quite a while, but it does get kinda gross if I forget about it.) all these get pushed further and further back.

And now that classes are back on, their is another set of things to do. I do get to blogging, just, less than once a week, and when I do sit down, I don't have enough time to catch all the way back up, especially since each time I take some time to do it, there are more in the backlog than the last time.

Give that it's only one per week, that means the times I've stopped to do this are pretty far and few between, and the fact that it doesn't feel like that long since I've done a post, is kind of a marker of how quickly time is passing.

I got a linear, year one one big page calendar. I just put the big things on it, to try and get a sense of how long I have for various things. Every week or so, I draw a line through the days that have passed since I last looked at it, and it really gives a sense of how quickly time is speeding by. It's almost alarming. It certainly gives me a sense of urgency, a desire to use each day and each hour well. Perhaps this is why there have been less blog posts. While I care about doing them, there have been, are, a bunch of things I care about more, that I've been focusing on.

I think I'll stop this post for now, though I'm going to continue writing, as a second post.