Ok, so for anyone who reads this on the occasion that i happen to actually work up the will to come up with some kind of topic and then sit down and write about it in my narcissistic way and doesn't currently know that i have moved, now you do.
That's right, i have moved to the city where the university i go to is located because, well, i am leasing a house here for next year and so it made sense to live here before the school year started and get a feel for the place. Plus it is letting me take some courses over the summer so that i can get a jump on getting my degree (after all, doing a joint major and a minor is more than a little insane :)).
However as per usual my attention span has recently been shortened to less than a few seconds in length due to all of the new stimuli around me all the time. I am living in a new house in a new city without parents here to try and keep me in line, with fast internet, cable, and a PS2, as well as a number of people in the area who i know. Plenty of things to keep me busy and distracted from the things i really need to be doing.
And so in order to deal with this worsening scatter-brained-ness i am writing every single thing that i realize i need to do down on an ever growing to do list (which also leads me to a book recommendation, The To-Do List by Mike Gayle). I say ever growing because the only time that there is nothing left to do is when there is nothing left (because face it, you know when you die that there will still be stuff to do, i hope when i go it is the vacuuming).
Anywho, this writing and crossing off makes me think of a number of other things that are out there that need doing. The things that every person realizes that they SHOULD do, but claim to never have TIME to do.
Some examples from my list are "do readings for classes" or "clean/organize basement" fall into the category of things that will be crossed off because they can be done. Then there are the things that require a kind of change in life such as "watch less TV shows"(because i don't really watch a lot of TV, but i watch a lot of shows on my computer), "spend more time outside" or "make house a home". Each of those items requires more consistent work and effort to create a change.
My favorite items on the list though are those first few that go on every single list i make. They make me think of a little bit from the show My Name is Earl. For those who haven't watched the show what happens essentially is that a guy who is a prick by everyone's standards wins the lottery, gets hit by a car, his wife leaves him and he loses his winning ticket. While lying in a drug induced haze in his hospital bed he sees a guy on TV talking about karma and so he creates his list of all the bad things he has done and decides to make up for them one at a time. Anywho in one episode he realizes that he has been a bad big brother so he writes on his list "Be a better brother" and in his mental monologue he adds that this is one thing he will never cross off his list because he can never stop being a good brother.
That's what the items that are on the top of my list are, the things that i never want to cross off because i can never do enough. They are "Sit", "Read", "Write", and "Blog". These are things that i think i will never truly finish doing, there is always something else to read write or blog about and there is never enough time spent with yourself just sitting and thinking.
Think about your to-do list, what things is it missing and what does it have too much of? What do you want to always include and which things do you not really need to spend so much time on?
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