Aha, so you noticed that, did you? Well, it's as the title says. I have completely lost my mind.
I did not get a job for which I applied that was supposed to start today if it had been mine, so that leaves me with nothin' but time. Okay, not really. It just means I still don't have a job.
So, what better use of my would-be-working-if-that-were-an-option energy than blogging? Fortunately, Mrs. Kennedy (who doesn't like being called that anymore) has come up with a fun new game for all of us, NaBloPoMo, or National Blog Posting Month. Those intrepid narcissists such as myself who have signed on to participate have all sworn to post material on a blog each and every day during the month of November. It's sort of like NaNoWriMo, but with a better abbreviation and possibly less fictional.
Barring catastrophe or paying employment, I am even going to try to resuscitate my long-languishing Poem of the Day project. I do not promise success or sustained commitment, only the intention to try.
Maybe you'd like to try, too! Maybe you don't like the gun. That's okay; you can use a Lucasfilm-unauthorized Yoda graphic instead!
In preparation for this great undertaking, I've been making lists of things to blog about and holding off on completing posts I've already started. Unlike that pesky NaNoWriMo (which, for the record, I tried last year and failed ignominiously), you don't have to actually make everything from scratch during the month of November; you just have to post something every single day. It's meant to be exercise, and as with any exercise, the only person you can cheat by fudging is yourself.
I'm not really cheating, though. Unlike some people, I don't just whip my thoughts from glimmer to lucid page in a moment. I lost that facility years ago. Besides, Mercury is retrograde 'til the 18th, which, if in fact it does anything at all, just promises to make all things communicative that much more challenging. So this isn't cheating. This -- slowly compiling thoughts and illustrations -- is my normal process, and a little astrological muddling just makes it a more interesting, and slower, challenge. And making it a daily do-or-die assignment is just going to make me amp up production. (heh -- get it? "amp" up? a ha ha ha ha -- losing it, totally)
I'm looking forward to this. I have deep thoughts and silly pictures, practical advice, ranting and snarling, spine-tingling adventures and yummy snacks, and a piece of art or two, all in the offing, some even already in the wings adjusting their underwear before they come on. So be sure to visit every day, starting November 1, El Día de los Muertos.
Oh, and if I actually manage to pull this off, especially if I bring Poem of the Day back to life again, too, it's fairly possible that December might be kind of quiet around here. This exercise may prostrate, not rejuvenate. We'll see.
Yay for you! Every day I look at Fussy and say, I'll sign up...then I don't. Blech. Maybe I'll do it, who knows.
But you are! Hooray!!
Posted by: melissa b. | October 30, 2006 at 03:20 PM
Well, Ms. Harpy, we'll see if I actually do it. I have Big Plans, Very Big Plans -- but then, I always do, as you will see when I post pictures of various things like the afghan I've been working on for three years.
Meanwhile, you -- yeah you, the one scrambling to save your marriage while raising two boys, holding down a full-time job, and apparently accepting like Velcro® the judgment of everyone with a mouth or a keyboard -- I think you have plenty to keep you occupied for the moment! On the other hand, you could just post a different picture of yourself chair dancing every day for the month of November and still fulfill the "requirements."
Might be therapeutic. Or it might just turn into one more thing you have to do every day. I'd be entertained by chair dancing pictures, but, you know...
Posted by: Sara | October 30, 2006 at 04:54 PM
Oh yea! I've linked to your blog on my web page so that I may more easily enjoy your poetry.
Posted by: Cathy | October 30, 2006 at 06:13 PM
Uh-oh, I guess the pressure's on... ;)
Posted by: Sara | October 30, 2006 at 07:11 PM
Good for you! I've lost my mind too and already feeling like the little engine that could. I think i can, it think i can... we'll see. fellow Nanowrimo drop out here.
Posted by: rdl | October 31, 2006 at 07:14 PM
Hey, rdl, it's good to see you here. I will definitely check out your blog this month.
We dropouts have to stick together!
Posted by: Sara | November 02, 2006 at 04:43 PM