April 6th, 2008

Have I mentioned that I really love the idea of writing about things I've done on here and posting pictures of said things? In theory it's a marvelous thing, but I never quite get it in practice. I enjoy writing stuff, and can accomplish such with little to no thought or effort on my part. Yet the picture thing eludes me. I have them (I take pictures of everything for no reason whatsoever most of the time, except for the obvious reason of that I enjoy doing so), but downloading them onto my computer and from there arranging them onto here is more work than I usually have the desire to undertake. I think it's the ADD present in me. My sort of friend Jerry complained that no pictures on a blog is "lame," and I kind of agree with him. I'm a visual person, and it's nice to have things grab you like that, thus being the reason why I have so many bloody pictures in the first place. Nevertheless, that's what happened to the Mexico post, Semi Fun Week, Easter...so don't be holding your breath for them. I would eventually like to put them on here though. I will untill then inevitably write it off as something I will hopefully do when I'm less busy. As is usually the case though, when one has the time to write there is nothing to write, and when there is something of interest to depart there are better things to do than to write and download pictures. It's so much easier to get them randomly from the internet. Case in point.
As usual I will blame my lack of a desire towards any forward movement, on school and work. The fact that they force me forward with so many things makes me all the more likely to dig in my heals when it comes to every other aspect of my life that I have to force in any way. My room is still half-way cleaned, half-way wanting to be cleaned, as is the case with my car, and every other project I have. That, of course, being what I'm naturally good at. I have unfinished projects stemming from the very earliest parts of my childhood. I have an elaborate nativity set of handstitched dolls/animals with wood, leather, cloth and metal components (for realism's sake) I started making for my grandmother at the age of 10 (and the parts I finished are rather impressive if I do say so myself), a miniature model of my house I started when I was about 12 (only the basement of which I finished, and which I ultimately stopped because as time elapsed my real life house changed enough that it became difficult to render the model in the way I had wanted to), wooden marionette puppets in various degrees of creation from my marrionette puppet phase... These days I still have that damn mountain dew tree, my ImmunoCAP 1000 pinata, countless clay things, photo albums, writings... Bah.

I started cleaning my room while watching Conference today. It made me wish there were more days of Conference to look forward to, because I can always relax and think of good and productive things when watching Conference, and I don't feel badly about putting off unpleasant thoughts, like papers and projects due. Of course, I will not be able to watch the rest of Conference (though I will still download and listen to it), and so I must instead get geared up for work over the next few days, and writing papers and making projects. Thankfully this is not too bad of a feat. I mean, busy work like this semester comprises is time consuming, and I have a natural tendency to avoid it, but when I actually make myself do it I find myself enjoying it. I like writing. I like coming up with random power point presentations. I hate the time limits entailed, but you can't have everything. I even like work when I'm not bored, and things are starting to pick up since Summer is prime allergy testing season. I will end with a picture of the baby I am using in my power point presentation of Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn. I think anytime a baby is wearing tye dye clothing, it should be worked into any and every presentation possible.