Time Management

Just something strange I noticed.

Now that I'm jobless (on the 24th, officially) I've found that I leave the blog alone for longer stretches. When I was busy and frazzled and dealing with military bullshit I wanted nothing more than to spend a few hours on the computer composing missives. Now . . .

Now I sleep most of the day and spend the night watching television or browsing the internet. Ideas come so infrequently.

I definitely have the problem detailed in the book No Plot? No Problem!, where Chris Baty encourages all month-long novelists to continue their hectic schedules, allotting writing time to specific chunks because too much time is often worse than too little.

Seems simple enough. I also get very few hits and no comments anymore. Not sure if I even have an audience.

There was a spike when I discussed certain Marine Corps experiences, and I can only assume that somehow acted as a weird magnet, drawing people into my site who then read the content with confused expressions. Video games? Wha?

I'm also getting to the point where I either figure out how going to school will be possible or just give up and look for employment. Which means trying to figure out how a high-school educated former UGA library assistant and former Microwave Communications Marine can get a decent job in the DC area that allows both self and spouse to eat and be sheltered. And maybe see a movie now and then.

Whee.