Surveying the readership

Like my old friend Nick, I have far too many essay/post ideas floating about in my head and not enough motivation or imperative to write them. (I suspect that he at least keeps a pile of drafts lying around, though. I don't.) I need to focus. I also need to write; there's a cathartic effect releasing these thoughts into text so I don't have to keep them in my head anymore. It's like thought-overload or something.

Here are some of those random post ideas:
* Things from teacher training that really ought to be in training for prospective profs
* The call of the sea forest: My outdoors(wo)man tendencies since childhood
* Why it should have been obvious all along that scholarship is my calling - it was just a question of which field, and even that in hindsight seems obvious
* When good self-esteem/image/pride causes shame
* A diary of the good fight: Notes on teaching (you've actually already seen some of this; I hope to post the rest once the dedicatee of these papers has had a chance to read the 13-page manuscript)
* The return of Hug-a-Finn

I know that my lack of regular updates and the personal nature of my writing tends to lead to a lot of questions asked and not enough of them answered. So please post below what you want to know more about, be it any of those topics above or something else, and I will do my best to respond.


I bought like 2.5 pounds of Cadbury Mini-Eggs in bulk today. They were like $4-something per pound. It wouldn't be wise for me to eat them all. Will probably leave some out for the roommates.

My internet has been flaking out so badly for the last couple of days that I think it's a sign I'm supposed to go meditate or pray or just be with myself.

I keep thinking it's already Thursday night.