Well, the email I wrote about yesterday was, indeed, sent to my home email account, it just never showed up in my inbox. I suppose it was lost somewhere in the netherworld of internet filters… I tried to send it to myself again this morning and it still didn’t get through, but the other email I sent to myself did. How very odd. (I find this business of internet security and filtering very byzantine in nature.)
Anyway, moving right along… I have been working hard, these last couple days, at putting together a paper about how we’re going to adapt to the future in my office… It’s actually interesting stuff, and I’m enjoying the research and brainstorming part of it; what’s proved a little more challenging is actually figuring out when enough is enough. I keep thinking of more great ideas and continue brainstorming, when what I should be doing now is refining the already-bursting outline into distinct themes, and then putting things into sentences and paragraphs (or actually bulleted lists) instead of outline form. Sigh.
It’s funny to me, because I can tell that doing that kind of writing (or pre-writing research, as it may be) for work takes some of the creative juices that usually I reserve for writing with here. I come home and feel rather drained of new ideas, and wonder if I’ve got a problem or if I’ve actually reached the end of my creativity and it will never be revived again… (Yes, I have a slightly melodramatic streak at times…)
But otherwise, if you enjoy descriptions of odd cat behavior, check out this post... it had me giggling foolishly at the computer screen for far too long… (I always feel like such an unredeemable dork when I laugh in a silent room as I read something on the computer… it reminds me of the strange disheveled people who used to inhabit my school’s computer labs, ftp-ing with their online girlfriends (in the early 90’s this was happenin’ technology!) and laughing suddenly, scarily, into a room where the only other sound was the frenzied typing of people who had to turn in papers the next day…)
Posted by Kjirstin 
