Wow...

...That was a long case of writer's block.

Good thing Kevin paid us a visit and threw a bit of his creative force our way. A few good conversations with Kevin, a few visits to his blog, and I suddenly feel inspired to break this six-month hiatus. Thanks, Kevin.

So, bear with me. I'm shaking out the blogger's cobwebs. The good thing, I guess, is that everybody has probably given up on my blog by now, so I am free to write really crappily without being self-conscious.

Why start the blog again? Here's the scene: I've been finding post-it notes I have written to myself all over the place. All over the place. On my dashboard. On my ipod. On my "free gift" Clinique makeup bag.

What is written on the post-its? Some book titles, some grocery lists, some time splits. But mostly, I don't know what's on the post-its. All I know is my thoughts seemed really important at the time (on one of them, I can decipher the words "terribly important"), but now these scribbled thoughts are meaningless, relegated to a corner of my desk at work. I can't read them, either because I can't make out my own handwriting or because the pencil has all but faded. But I can't throw them away (what if what I wrote was my one and only stroke of genius?). The solution: Lose the post-its, go back to the blog.

So, after about an hour and a half of trying to remember my blogspot username and password, it's back to the blog I go.