Minor Obstacles

There are interesting stories popping up all over my life that I've wanted to tell you all about. Bolt was just more important, I had to make sure everyone read that entry before I was willing to post any more.

No? Don't buy that one? Yeah, Bolt's not my proudest entry. (Not bad, but I've done better.)

How about this one then:

I was kidnapped by a band of thieves who needed my unique expertise to pull off a complicated caper. Our adventures together were hilarious, heart-warming, and poignant (especially the scene where we discovered what the leader was really after). Unfortunately, the President has forbidden me to speak of any of this.

No again? You're a tough audience. Tell you what, I'll put up a bunch of excuses and you can just pick your favorite:

1. I traveled to a remote mountaintop guru to discover the meaning of life. He was on vacation when I got there, so I'll have to go back some other time.
2. I've been recovering from the B&B party.
3. I was struck by lightning and began to generate a field that interfered with electronic devices, thus making it completely impossible for me to use a computer to post my blog. On the other hand, it did give me the power to thwart a villanous conspiracy of robots. So that's good.
4. I took a vow of digital silence. I break it now only because the need is so dire.
5. My grammar was stolen from me by a mad-scientist named Frank. I tried to write for help, but the result was unreadable and deeply embarassing. I had to retrieve my grammar on my own.
6. I caught a bad computer virus and could only speak in binary for a long time. I had to quarantine myself from my computer so as not to get it sick, too.
7. I was playing a video game and reached a two month long cut-scene that I couldn't pause. I spent the rest of the time since then catching up on sleep.
8. I went on tour with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
9. My evil twin kidnapped me and took my place. He spent the time applying to jobs, helping plan my wedding, and playing video games. He occasionally thought about all the blog entries I couldn't write in captivity and then laughed maniacally.
10. There was an accounting error and the finger company thought I had missed several payments. They repossessed both hands until I was able to show them their mistake. They returned the hands (obviously) but never apologized.
11. I slipped on a temporal distortion getting out of the shower one morning and spent twelve weeks stuck in 1937.
12. There was an accident involving superglue.
13. The authorities finally caught up with me and I had to serve my time for the incident in Morocco. It's probably a good thing they never connected me to the Paducah thing or you'd never get your blog entries back.

There, what do you think? Let me know if you need any more. In the meantime, I think I'll stop writing excuses and start writing blog entries again (well, once I've dealt with this secret alien invasion).

Another List

I have a hard time focusing on homework sometimes. I try, but get distracted and wander off to do something else. The best way to make sure this doesn’t cause real problems for me is to do something else productive with my “procrastination time.” I’m good at this, but I could be better. The following is a list of the things I’ve found myself doing instead of homework this weekend

A load of laundry
Load my dishwasher and run it
Wash the dishes in my sink
A second load of laundry
Unload the clean dishes from the dishwasher and set them out to dry
Check to see if the dishes are dry
Make my bed with clean sheets
Download Turbotax
Make a to-do-list and cross off the items I had already finished (I seed my to-do-lists with finished items the same way salespeople sometimes seed tip jars with their own money)
A third load of laundry
Research how to make windchimes
Set up music list to “work” to
A fourth load of laundry
Check to see if the dishes are dry
Put dishes away
Read a short story
Read another because the first one was only so-so
Make lunch
Read my friends’ blogs and respond “appropriately”
A fifth load of laundry (I’ve been putting off my laundry in favor of homework)
Wander around the apartment to see if there’s anything that needs to be put away
Prepare trash to go out
Check to see if the dishes are dry, remember I already put them away
Do a sixth load of laundry (my laundry machine is tiny)
Color in a photoshop image I conceived of yesterday
Write a list of everything I’ve done today and post it on my blog