SC Lamont RN > Blog > Dec 26, 2004 > Stuck in the office this gloomy day.

Posted Sunday, December 26, 2004 @ 2125 PST
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Stuck in the office this gloomy day.

So it's a grey Boxing Day morning here in the Bay, with the wind picking up and the temperature hovering around 51°F (10°C). The forecast is calling for showers today, sinking towards real rain this evening. Shara has taken Micaela of for a walk while it's still just blustering. The girl loves to be outside pretty much regardless of weather, and it does reduce the distraction factor in the house while I'm writing. Yeah, I'm locked in my office again, trying to hammer out the strategic management paper that's been overdue for more than a week now. I thought it would be done before last weekend, and that I would have my family theory paper done by this weekend so that I could spend the rest of my winter break working on a couple of articles I wanted to write and the care plans I had agreed to write for the upcoming seventh edition of Ackley & Ladwig's "Nursing Diagnosis Handbook" (I was a contributor in the sixth edition). No such luck. Writer's block is a terrible thing. I'm using all sorts of tricks to try to get through this process, including breaking each part down to the smallest size possible, and using a timer to limit time spent on other activities (like checking my e-mail and blogging).

So in light of my limited time to post anything on my blog, you might not be surprised to note the sudden burping of entries. This is because I've had several days of entries that I had written or mostly written and then haven't had time to actually post. What little time I've spent in Dreamweaver has been spent working on the Silver Moon site, trying to clean up a couple of problems. So sorry, mea culpa. Well, not too sorry - as I see it, I have the right to screw up on getting my posts out on my own site. This revelation has come to me thanks to Luna Nina's piece on "My Blogging Rights As I See Them". I agree with her list, pretty much. Like her, I will avoid slamming other bloggers. By that I mean that I will stick to commenting on ideas or actions, and avoid questioning the basic worth or integrity of people. I've seem several sites that seem to be oriented towards bashing people (take Laugh at Liberals, for example), and find them to be very discouraging. How can you have a meaningful conversation if you are being called a moron and told to "shut up"? Unlike Luna Nina, I will probably not be pushing the "goofy envelope" very much, and tend to eschew emoticons and hearts. I've also noticed that her site (and others) have nice touches like disclaimers and credits. I suppose I should get around to posting similar items on my site. That's not going to happen until after I get HaloScan up and running so that people can actually make comments on my posts. No chance that is going to happen today, maybe tomorrow or the day after if I get enough school work done in the meantime.

I've still managed to waste a little time today. I was checking out the sungoddess's web site and found a link to the "Obscure Tolkien Filibuster" offered at Quizilla.com. Of course, I had to take it. My score was "expert", which is pretty cool, considering that there were questions on it I really wasn't sure I could answer. Needless to say, I've trumpeted my accomplishment here on my site by posting a button.And I've managed to find another "Wingnut Site of the Week".

Shara came home with this picture of the city skyline: you can see what a grey day it is. I'm going to take a break, find some food, and spend a few minutes meditating in our ritual room. It's a full moon tonight, so I'll light a candle for one of my friends who lost a member of his "fur family" to old age yesterday and is feeling down, and another for all those people bereaved by the recent tsunami. Then it's back to work.

Scott Chisholm Lamont, RN.