We are now, it being November the first, 5/6 of the way through 2009. This morning while I sat at Panera waiting for my friends to arrive, waiting, I might add, because I forgot to change my clock and arrived an hour early, I took a trip back through 2009 via my blog posts for the year. I began the year, perhaps appropriately, with politics on my mind. Obama was just taking office. Israel was bombing the hell into the Gaza strip without being held accountable. All that rot. Then came lent, where i quit caffeine and (oops) nicotine. Then the summer came, the Census Bureau, Aliquippa Impact, (the end of an era at Starbucks), and finally I was hurdled through time and space into a teaching job at ROOTS Academy. Been quite a year already. I don’t have a lot of time to just sit and reflect these days, my job keeps my busy or exhausted. I’ve really been missing my alone time, all that time I complained about back in January. It has been a bit since I just sat down and did some writing, even longer since I finished a book, sadly. This morning I forgot to change my clock, so I ended up having an extra hour of consciousness. Panera wasn’t open when I got here, so I went for a walk. Walking is good for the heart and the mind.
Last year about this time I decided to quit smoking for the month of November. Oops, for those of you who didn’t know, I have become a bit of a smoker since leaving college. I hope that doesn’t burst your bubbles too much. (sorry mother). Anyway, I’m bringing “No Smoke November” back. Usually that would mean I would just replace one addiction with another (i.e. drink more coffee), but I am also trying to cut back a tad on caffeine. Quitting coffee is not realistic right now, but I can cut back to one cup a day for a bit. I’m not so much worried about that though. The whole reason I began smoking, I think, was because it was a great filler for those awkward periods of time when you have 10-15 minutes to kill and don’t want to start anything big. I’m going to have to find better things to do in those periods of time. Here are some ideas, feel free to add to them (this list is more an attempt to convince myself than a real useful list):
- wash some dishes (ugh…where is my lighter?)
- Draw a picture
- Organize my desk
- Go through the pile of papers sitting on my desk and throw old ones away
- read a book or a poem
Two more months left this year. If you feel like you’ve wasted another one, there is just enough time to really do some damage before 2010. Might as well get a head start on the new year’s resolutions (or revolutions, take your pick).
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