Hectic

Well now, son. What do you think you're doing here? I don't even have a son. Not that I'm disowning you. You simply don't exist...I suppose you have a point--if you don't exist, who am I talking to? I suppose I'm talking to Ben Wiebeck. Not to you, imaginary son. Ben, you're unofficially adopted, even though you already have parents. To make it official, I'll have to discuss it with Juliet (some legality issues about a non-joint parent filing joint tax returns). Back into it, I guess...

Well now, Ben. That is, Ben and the others who actually read this. Here's the recentness:

I have started working at that online university. It takes up a lot of time, on top of that other lot of time taken up by Emporia State teaching and grading. Most of my time has been claimed by this stuff. I like free time, but I don't seem to have any left. Bah, well. I've always needed to force myself into productivity, so this will have to suffice for the time being.

I'm currently listening to Lowry's free-to-listen-to album Emporia. Thanks, Timothy. It's helping as I grade all these papers on the computer. Oh, I'm also currently grading all these papers on the computer for that online university. All these papers. Lots of all these papers.

Recently, as often occurs, I've been mostly in one of the following moods:

• Wanting a recording studio and related accoutrements; I'm developing a lot of song ideas, but I need to have some way to record and mix tracks for it to work right. (I'd also need a bit more free time.)
• Wanting to write a screenplay--actually working on this one currently (more time would definitely help here).
• Feeling like I should be working on my novel(s). Feel free to reference Family Guy here. This one's not happening much of late, but I have been finding good inspiration in a number of places--most recently, from Caleb J. Ross (a Kansas City based writer who went to ESU...uh, Timothy, get in touch with this guy, for the following reasons: his stuff is more literary, but it's good, he seems very open to getting to know other writers, he's a bit obsessed with SEO and having an online presence as a writer, I think you'd get along well, and once Denis Johnson almost drank his pee).
• Wanting to travel. Anywhere. And sleep in while I'm wherever I end up. Sometimes getting up early, because sunrises; but usually sleeping in.

Probably some other stuff could go in that list as well, but I do need to get back to grading, so I can get some semblance of a few hours' sleep before I have to go teach the face-to-face classes I teach on Fridays.

Oh, also, hi Juliet. Hi Adam. (I felt I should say hello to my more avid readers/commenters, so there you go; there aren't many of you, at least not yet...if there were a great many more, I wouldn't be able to recall everyone's name. So, good job getting in on the name-y action.)

What's going on for you people of late?

jdf