Monday
Oct252010
Missing in Action
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 2:37AM
To all who read this blog,
Please accept my apologies for seemingly disappearing off the face of the earth. Ok, so maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration, but I have been absent from this blog for too long. It's not for a lack of ideas on things to post, I can tell you that. I have ideas teeming out of my fingers, I just cannot type fast enough. (This has long been a problem of mine; I probably should take lessons and learn how to touch type; maybe that would stop Nicole from teasing me so much about it!)
A shortage of ideas, no. A shortage of time, yes. The elections are fast approaching, just over a week away. As they near ever closer, my free time decreases. It's important for us to be out there campaigning as much as we can, softening the impact the Republicans may have upon the Democrats. Jobs are literally on the line. So while I thoroughly enjoy hitting the streets, knocking on doors and persuading people's votes, I have unfortunately been short on time to blog.
Starting a new job has also decreased my time, though again, I wouldn't have it any other way. 8am starts mean early to bed and early wake ups. But the job is worth it, some nice money in my pocket, and an interesting experience. There's a lot of sitting around, which hopefully in the future will give me time to catch up on reading newspapers, time magazines, Empire, and a vast array of other things which I have been neglecting recently.
Bored much? Hardly. I remember a time when I used to complain a lot about having nothing to do, and being bored. That was a long time ago, and my opinion now is very far from the one I once held. I literally cannot comprehend being bored and having nothing to do. I have a huge variety of things on my ever-growing to-do list, a number of which date back to "Ben's post- exam to-do list" from June. That's a fail on a to-do list if ever there was one.
This weekend was spent catching up on things I had to do as best I could. I finally booked my Graduate Record Exam. Now I have get into gear and really start revising for it. Hopefully paying $160 just to sit in a chair for four hours should be incentive enough to do well. That, and the slim possibility that I might be successful in applying to an Ivy League school. Researching those has been a painstakingly long process too. I am still undecided on where to apply, though I am a little nearer in narrowing down choices. I have to hurry up with that process too, and start applying.
At least the weather this weekend didn't have us longing to be outside. Nope, it was a true taste of home; dark, cloudy, overcast. Whatever you want to call it. And it also rained. A lot. Perhaps I was missing the rain and miserable skies of England. Not any more.
It wasn't all hard work though. We went over to Nicole's friends' house to watch the Badgers defeat another ranked team, staying on track for the Big Ten Championship. The close game was even accompanied by chocolate covered Oreos in the shape of football(soccer balls) just for me! Then on a spur of the moment decision, we went to a great concert on State Street. More on that later.
I will do my best to get a few more posts written in the next couple of days, but then things really intensify in the final push before the election, so I may be missing in action once again. Keep in touch though, and don't forget to subscribe to be told of new posts, so you don't have to keep checking in!
Please accept my apologies for seemingly disappearing off the face of the earth. Ok, so maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration, but I have been absent from this blog for too long. It's not for a lack of ideas on things to post, I can tell you that. I have ideas teeming out of my fingers, I just cannot type fast enough. (This has long been a problem of mine; I probably should take lessons and learn how to touch type; maybe that would stop Nicole from teasing me so much about it!)
A shortage of ideas, no. A shortage of time, yes. The elections are fast approaching, just over a week away. As they near ever closer, my free time decreases. It's important for us to be out there campaigning as much as we can, softening the impact the Republicans may have upon the Democrats. Jobs are literally on the line. So while I thoroughly enjoy hitting the streets, knocking on doors and persuading people's votes, I have unfortunately been short on time to blog.
Starting a new job has also decreased my time, though again, I wouldn't have it any other way. 8am starts mean early to bed and early wake ups. But the job is worth it, some nice money in my pocket, and an interesting experience. There's a lot of sitting around, which hopefully in the future will give me time to catch up on reading newspapers, time magazines, Empire, and a vast array of other things which I have been neglecting recently.
Bored much? Hardly. I remember a time when I used to complain a lot about having nothing to do, and being bored. That was a long time ago, and my opinion now is very far from the one I once held. I literally cannot comprehend being bored and having nothing to do. I have a huge variety of things on my ever-growing to-do list, a number of which date back to "Ben's post- exam to-do list" from June. That's a fail on a to-do list if ever there was one.
This weekend was spent catching up on things I had to do as best I could. I finally booked my Graduate Record Exam. Now I have get into gear and really start revising for it. Hopefully paying $160 just to sit in a chair for four hours should be incentive enough to do well. That, and the slim possibility that I might be successful in applying to an Ivy League school. Researching those has been a painstakingly long process too. I am still undecided on where to apply, though I am a little nearer in narrowing down choices. I have to hurry up with that process too, and start applying.
At least the weather this weekend didn't have us longing to be outside. Nope, it was a true taste of home; dark, cloudy, overcast. Whatever you want to call it. And it also rained. A lot. Perhaps I was missing the rain and miserable skies of England. Not any more.
It wasn't all hard work though. We went over to Nicole's friends' house to watch the Badgers defeat another ranked team, staying on track for the Big Ten Championship. The close game was even accompanied by chocolate covered Oreos in the shape of football(soccer balls) just for me! Then on a spur of the moment decision, we went to a great concert on State Street. More on that later.
I will do my best to get a few more posts written in the next couple of days, but then things really intensify in the final push before the election, so I may be missing in action once again. Keep in touch though, and don't forget to subscribe to be told of new posts, so you don't have to keep checking in!
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