Unsolicited Advice

I am toying with my list of New Year's Resolutions. I'm not entirely sure that having them is such a good idea -- if I get too ambitious, that's effectively just a list of ways I am scheduled to have failed at life by December 31, 2013. I know myself too well to try anything like "get up before noon every day like a normal human" or "stop spooking people inadvertently", at least. Over the years, I have come to recognize that feeling that means that no matter how hard I push myself to do a certain thing, it is simply not going to happen. It's not even a declaration of rebellion. It's more a sort of prognostication. That feeling means that regardless of how much I try to push, wheedle, talk, trick or bribe myself to do whatever it is by whatever the arbitrary deadline is, I will just keep getting more and more anxious about it and generally overwhelmed, and then the deadline will pass, and the whatever will not have been done. And if I keep tryin...

It is a new year, and I have come to a new conclusion: This blogging thing is not fun unless I get to air my opinions in public. People will praise me, and people will yell at me. As this is my blog, when people irk me, I get to banhammer them. C'est la vie. Go forth, ye, and read the things that my brain coughs up when I am trying to do useful shit, like work or sleep.