It’s been at least 8 months since I’ve written here. It’s funny since I made a little pact to myself to write here at least once a week last year. This is why I don’t make New Year’s resolutions…I never keep them. Something always happens. It’s all good though. I’m not going to beat myself up for not keeping my pact. I have had a lot going on and I can promise you it’s not that I haven’t been writing….I just haven’t been writing here or like this.
I have finally started on my path to finishing my college degree. After years and years and, yes, years of being an English major but never getting anywhere serious because of life’s little obstacles I made the commitment, both financial and emotional, to completing a degree in Technical Communications. So instead of reading countless pieces of literature and analyzing them or writing papers about goodness knows what I am learning how to create manuals, brochures, proposals and the like. I’m learning how to make complicated information more understandable and presentable. They are training this girl who loves to write long drawn out prose about just about anything to write in short and concise sentences.
This going back to school practically full-time while working a 40+ hour job and raising a teenager has been a challenge. I find myself not having the time or the energy to do much of anything but study and work. I can’t remember the last time I really cleaned the house, I neglect texting friends, and I think my family believes I’ve had a giant rock fall on top of me. I’m hoping they all stand by me for one more year of this and that my daughter and furry friends who live with us can put up with a not so clean home just a bit longer.
So tonight I’m struggling with two separate projects that happen to be the final projects in two classes I’m taking this semester. I’m not getting a lot of feedback from the people I’m asking for help (classmates, mostly) and I’m frustrated. I hit this spot often and always make it through but tonight I’m just in a bad place mentally and needed to come “home” to what I know for a minute. It’s nice to know that, as a writer, there is always a place to go to just write and not worry about page alignment, contrast, or concision. I’m not even going to go back through this and do my normal edits. Nope. I’m going to run spell check (because poor spelling is just horrible) and I’m going to post.
To those who read this hoping for something profound, I am sorry to disappoint tonight. This particular post is for me. It’s so I can sleep tonight without dreaming about the brochure I’m creating slowly and not so surely or the course portfolio which is currently one paragraph long. Maybe soon I’ll have something enlightening to say. Until then goodnight and stay well.
On My Mind 