I've been asked many times why I haven't blogged lately. When I tell people, they look at me like I'm nuts. You see, I just don't have the time to sit and think and then take the proverbial pen to paper. Its bad enough that I do NOT follow all the standard steps to writing. I saw a poster with these steps that I can get at Barnes and Noble. This poster will help me with one of the reasons I don't have time to write my blog. But will it give me more time? No, it will give me LESS time because I will be fighting MORE with Cassie over a huge ass poster that says she is supposed to plan, draft, edit, re-write, I-believe-I'm-missing-a-step and then publish. Me, I think, write and publish. Actually, so does Cassie. Hey, but I put in more words, sentences details and paragraphs!!! I know that given time she'll follow in her mother's writing footsteps. She has a ton of ideas and an imagination to rival Christopher Robin!!
So, why am I blogging now? Because it is 3am and I don't feel like cleaning, planning, teaching, or researching things at the moment. Oh, and my Mom and my other friends aren't awake to chat. So, what is there left to do at 3am but to blog! What, sleep? I should be sleeping?!?! You are telling me!! But we all have issues. See, once I get out of bed, I'm awake. I went to see an Endocrinologist yesterday. She asked me how many times I get up to pee in the night. I told her I don't. She said "REALLY?" Its not often I impress doctors!! I told her that I have been known to wake up and THINK about getting up and going pee. But in the end I always decide its just not worth it, and fall back to sleep.
So, why am I up at 3am? Cassie is sick and just can't fall back to sleep. I know what many of you are thinking. You are thinking she is 12 years old and can hang out, not feeling well, by herself. And she can!! But I got out of bed and now I'm awake. But my interrupted sleep is your gain! You get a BLOG!!
There are somethings that are difficult to illustrate in the written word. What JUST happened to me, JUST after I typed the last sentence in the last paragraph was freakin' hilarious, but you missed it. "You get a BLOG!!!" I typed, with a huge smile, a couple of jaunty exclamation points. It was with excitement, pride, and just a general feeling of euphoria that I hit what I still call the "return tab", and then just sat there. I stared at my blinking cursor. Not a thought in my brain. I almost started writing "de da dee da deeeee" to simulate the lack of words my mind is creating. Crickets. Analog clock tick-tocking away. Cassie yawning. WAIT!! Cassie yawning? If she's yawning, she should go to bed! But it wouldn't matter. For once my feet hit the ground I'm up for about an hour. Unless I'm trying to figure out what to blog. Or, I can end this blog now. But how will I end something that really has no point? No structured idea? If it has no beginning or middle, can it have an end?!!?! This is why teaching is difficult, why it really would be best to leave it to professionals. I will let you know that sometimes, when I teach Cassie, things don't go right. Something will go wrong and some how take a completely different path that what I've intended. I've found that sometimes its best to deploy my emergency parachute. I think I will do that now. "What are you talking about", you ask? Watch closely how a pro does it. Oh, but you need to have it completely spontan-------- WAIT!! LOOK!!! A Squirrel!! AND ELVIS!! I gotta pee, you are pretty, I like monkeys, want a cookie?
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