Day: January 15, 2023

Good news! I’m back to dreaming in story. Bad news: I have yet to write anything down. This does confirm that my link to the story verse is not severed but has been greatly damaged by years. That being said, I’m completely on the path of getting back. I want to write and create and build. I even found a spot to work on a new Minecraft town while I listen to (great?) fiction. All of this is leading somewhere. I am on a path yet again to getting into a writing groove and I (once again?) intend to stay there and produce the kind of fiction my childhood self would be proud of.

I think that matters. I think the person you ought to be trying to make proud is yourself. Self pride is critical and when I am not proud of myself I tend to be less of a person. I’m often not proud of myself, but when I am… Yeah. it goes well.

I wonder if the connection to the story verse is linked in some way to a connection with the supernatural? I feel more of that connection again as well, and that does make me curious. Perhaps connection itself is a measure. Perhaps I am simply more linked to my own being and as such my other senses are again aligning… All things to be considered.

Some Thoughts:

1. Well, I ate crow last night. Lawrence did throw 4 picks, and should have lost that game –being down 27-7 at half. However, they won. 31-30 I believe. Which means the Chargers completely collapsed offensively and couldn’t force many more turnovers.
2. Giants step up to the pitch in a few hours.
3. I step up to the teaching pitch in a few days, and I’m not ready. My 8-week will be especially hectic, and I need to have that 100% locked in and ready to roll from day 1. I’ll get to work early that first day to do final layout of the day one experience, but I want to have the digital (canvas and more) backend ready to go by Monday. I also expect to have a good layout for the other classes and at least the first week done by Monday. Tuesday is game on.

As I make this argument I have already been informed that I run the risk of being exclusionary and arguing against what I do as a primary money maker. Still, when I heard this simple argument in a story I was like, “ooooof” Here is what was said, “Is this argument merely academic or is there some practical point to what you are saying?”

At that very moment I realized the line had been drawn, and on one end of it was academic. On the other was practical. I thought back to my recent conflicts with co workers and realized, yeah. That’s exactly the issue. I’ve watched some of them spend years renaming and reinventing simple concepts in an attempt to show a different way of saying the stuff we already know to be true… The recent reinvigoration of the word ‘Grit’ is a prime example. What sucks for me is to feel like there is that real division in teaching between people who are trying to activate students to be better and people who are talking about how we should be trying to do it and what language to use around that. Moreover, I fear I am sinking into an academic space where the people who are having the large conversations aren’t actually doing anything but creating structures that make them invaluable but don’t do anything practical for the end user, which is the student.

Some Thoughts:

1. Trevor Lawrence is junk. I said it when he came out. I said it multiple times this year. He is a remarkable college QB, but in the pros he is simply NOT him. To that point: 3 picks in the first quarter of his first playoff game. Game exposes lack of game.