Keep Running
I’m curious about the idea of exercising midday. In my mind, exercise has always an intermediate space between work and play; it transitions one away from responsibility and into enjoyment.
I wonder if resorting the timing of an activity will thereby alter the meaning it carries. If I went to night school, would I be a different kind of student?
Productivity
Writing these posts doesn’t make me productive. It does, however, serve a certain psychological compulsion that demands of me sustained production.
Of course, this is wasted time, as best as can be understood. I’m waiting for a haircut; there’s not much to be done in this heavily DJ’ed environment. Which is to say, writing gives the sense of doing work- it generates the same neurobiological response as completion of actual work. That might be a comment on law school itself, which demands a large amount of value-neutral “work” that serves a primary function of being a fuzzy signal to employers.
Anyway, writing feels good; it feels like accomplishment. Consider that praise at 10 feet and criticism at 30,000.
Side note
Just to be clear: there is no reason for the Tumblr app to demand I write in whatever the alternative to “landscape mode” is. Just saying.
(Meta on meta: I really dig two-word snark closers. Mine doesn’t get the job done, but I can dream.)
Is Being Wiped Out a Good Thing?
I’m trying to decide whether or not to push through and continuing reading for evidence, or to hold back and consider some big-picture issues surrounding this semester. Which is to say, I’m having a tough time getting my head in the game.
Weebly
If you’ve never heard of it, I’ll leave it at this: any site that sends passive agressive emails when you don’t visit often enough is doing something wrong. I got lured away by Flavors. Simple as that.
Dinner for Fourteen
Word is, planning a vacation produces more happiness than any other activity.
As it stands, I’m more stressed out about this upcoming trip than I’d like to be, or than is even remotely reasonable.
HCR Summit
I caught about twenty minutes of today’s summit. Two things:
- The White House’s iPhone App is awesome.
- Do Republicans have to do anything but look reasonable? It seems taking a page from the Peggy Noonan playbook would be the most effective tactic to ensure that nothing changed between yesterday and tomorrow.
