Reasons for Absence

I know I have been delinquent in attending to this blog. Even though I often have interesting ideas for posts, and lofty ideas to tell you, I never have the patience to turn on the computer, plug it in, and connect to the internet. To be honest, I don't have patience for email, either. I check my email, make sure there isn't anything urgent or important, reply to perhaps one person a day (if today isn't your day, you might get a response tomorrow or next week), and sign off. Oh, and I check my bank information and test marks on the internet, too.

One of the reasons for this is that I have to type up papers. Doing so requires discipline and a computer. And frankly, when you start to associate the computer with your yet-to-be-completed projects, then the computer starts to take on an unpleasant association. So naturally, you want to stay away from it.

The other reason is that I have just been busy. The two projects mentioned before were completed and handed in before R"C Shvat, B"H. But I still have other projects - projects that I am afraid to push off, for fear that they won't get finished, ever. Not only do I want to finish everything this year, so that I can get my degree, but I am also afraid of falling prey to the trend that takes so many others. The trend is as follows: taking five, six, or more years to finish up your projects, and/or having to come in one day a week to take a course that you either didn't take or didn't pass, when you already have two or three kids. NOT my idea of fun, especially since without a degree, you get paid practically a negative salary. So - I have till Pesach (this is what I'm giving myself) to finish any and all avodot that are due now. The stuff for classes I take currently - I want to see if I can finish before, but that requires asking the teacher for the assignment, and if I end up doing it when it is assigned, the world will not come to an end. BUT I do need to finish projects that were given up until this past semester. So, wish me luck.

I do intend, upon finishing the vast majority of these projects, to start blogging more often. But again, I can't promise.