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I started reading some Raymond Chandler stuff yesterday. Expect my dialogue on here to be affected.
That might be a good thing. These are the days of the mid-winter-not-quite-spring blahs that used to leave me pissed-off for weeks when I lived in South Dakota. It’s not as bad out here in Sunny CO, but it’s still not great, and it creeps into everything you do.
Even here.
MG’s talking about it — people are logging off, getting away, taking a step back, or even just hanging on for dear life and sucking up bandwidth with crap. I’m not one of the quitters, and I hope I’m not one of the suckers, but I never really know.
Maybe we’re waiting for Spring. Maybe we’re just sick of it all. Maybe the laundry just got really backed up and needs some attention.
I got bored during the New Year season and came up with lots of cool things to do with my time. Now those cool things make a long list of commitments and I have to start deciding what is and isn’t worth it. I know the things that are going to win. I know the things that are going to lose. Doesn’t make it easier.
Oh.
This blog isn’t one of the losers. Never worry about that. This would be one of the last great dinosaurs to die, assuming it ever will. We’ve come too far to give this habit up now, haven’t we? If nothing else, I can switch to a Quantity over Quality approach and type all day long.
But there’s a few other time-killers out here that’re going to get killed in return. That’s just the nature of this beast, part of my compulsive cycle. The let-down. The big sleep. You spread your energy far and wide, then decide what needs to be pared down so you can really let the cool things flourish.
Or something. Right now I’ve just got the blahs and wanted to post something. Back to work for me now. Someone go out and take a walk for me.
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I don't know how you can have the blahs. I think it's a beautiful day.
Oh, I do drive around all day for my job... Maybe the being outside to enjoy the sky and the mountains makes a difference?
Break free of the cubicle!
~Robert
posted by Robert, March 5, 2002 02:34 PM
I went out and walked--in the snow, under the perpetually gray Minnesota sky--and I feel better. You should try it--cubicles be damned. ...one of my coworkers has a HUGE sign outside her cube that reads "Start SEEING cubicles." I have no idea what that means, but it scares me.
posted by Toni, March 5, 2002 02:41 PM
yeah. cubicals are invisible spaces, no one really sees them - unless it is to tell you to put your toys away...
I went out and walked to the mailbox. it's cold here in Michigan...
glad that your blog is staying around, Doyce.
My list to do includes things like - figure out the basics for web design and do it, already - but we are coming up quick to Ambercon, and I have a long list of stuff to do before/for the con, too...
Hmmm set up nametags for printing... create this year's entry poster... signage... finish the library shelves... finish the art show boards... bug Meera for work to include in the library... stuff welcome packs at K's the 15th... what else? I am sure there is more...
posted by jenn, March 5, 2002 05:10 PM
Coincidentally, I've been feeling kind of overwhelmed the past few days with various commitments and so forth. I know a lot of it is, for me, being faced with some major time sinks, but I also know that I'll get past this, somehow.
However, I'm about *that* far from not volunteering for anything further.
Bleah.
posted by ***Dave, March 5, 2002 05:24 PM
I've been working harder for my blog posts, but I've also had more energy because I've been walking outside.
It was beautiful out today. There is still a hint of winter in the wind, and spring hasn't begun to sprout, but it was a really nice walk uphill.
posted by MT Fierce, March 5, 2002 06:04 PM
chocolate, physical comforts, genre novels, and encouragement from one's spouse. i don't know if raymond chandler would do it for me; i'm in the middle of the father brown stories, and i have the second laurell k. hamilton (if i have her name right) a-waiting. p.s. lee says it's better than the first one, so that's probably why we hadn't been sucked into the series yet.
soon it will be spring, and i'll go out for sushi to celebrate.
posted by dust, March 6, 2002 05:56 AM
Chandler really has quite a turn of phrase. I'll lend you the book when I'm done with it. Sort of reminds me of old Zelazny, which isn't surprising, considering both of their writing-origins.
Laurell Hamilton's stuff doesn't get markedly better. You're probably right about the getting hooked thing -- we always get people the first two books to hook them; one is never enough.
posted by Doyce, March 6, 2002 08:20 AM
Which Laurell K. Hamilton? Her erotic faerie stories, or her Anita Blake stories?
I haven't read the faerie stuff yet (A KISS OF SHADOWS is just out in paperback), but the Blake stuff gets somewhat better, then goes somewhat downhill, IMO. I'm waiting for NARCISSUS IN CHAINS in paperback, I've heard so much bad about it.
posted by Julia, March 6, 2002 09:51 AM
the anita baker stories.
i tried to pick up some raymond chandler some time ago, but i didn't care for him...the story i read was seemed like someone who was trying to invoke emotion by being as subtle as a two by four. maybe it was like reading the original after getting used to the derivatives...you fail to appreciate originality, because by the time you get around to it, you've already seen all the variations, some of which are better-written. dwarves on the backs of giants, and what.
posted by dust, March 7, 2002 05:55 AM
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