Posts to this blog are getting fewer and farther between. Once a week is already bad enough, but once every two weeks is getting almost to the point of giving up.
Sometimes I think the problem is that my life is not that interesting. But if I think about it, that's not the problem. I probably think of something nearly every day that is blog-worthy. The problem is more of time. If I write a blog entry, I write it at home, at the computer. I only get about an hour or two of time at night when I would be on the computer. And if I'm in front of the computer, I am usually doing work.
Yesterday, a solution occurred to me. I have roughly 1.5 hours I am on the subway every day. Previously, I've been spending this time reading books. And it's been great: I've read a lot of great books in the past few years. But if I wrote on the subway instead of reading, I could and would write a great deal. Later, at home, I would simply need to transcribe all my writings.
So this is what I'm doing now. I am writing this on the subway. Standing up. While trying to keep my balance against the stops, starts, and unexpected decelerations. I'm writing, but as you may imagine, writing while standing up, while balancing, on a subway does not lead to great handwriting. And if you have seen my handwriting before, you may find it difficult to imagine what my bad handwriting looks like. I write, but whether I can read it later on is a mystery right now. If you are reading this, I suppose I must have made some sense of it.
Posted by ahyatt at October 4, 2006 11:11 PM