I have almost reached the end of a writing notebook, so I purchased a new one over the weekend. This morning, I took some time to go through the old notebook and transfer ideas I still want to work on into the new notebook. Some of my ideas have been transferred through many, many notebooks, and they only manage that if they still intrigue me and I haven’t written anything about them other than a few notes. These ideas are simmering.
I noticed in reviewing the notebook I’ve filled that it contains many blog post topics, most of which I’ve already dealt with here on Woo Woo Teacup. There are, however, several blog ideas that I was all fired up about when they came to me, but that for reasons of time, I never managed to bring to fruition here. I also had a flood of blog ideas that came to me over the weekend in relation to an old post that I’ve not yet had a chance to write about. Here’s my list of topics:
Asparagus Pee
Midwest Teen Sex Show
The Low Tide of Fixation
Technology: Shouldn’t It Be Getting Easier?
Why Aren’t Scientist Asking More Questions? (Immunizations)
Testing My Mettle
Criticism
Autographs
Natural Consequences
The Territorial Cop
I’ll probably get around to some of these fairly soon, but are there any topics listed above that you’d really like to hear about? Let me know and I’ll shuffle the list.
Oh, and in Greenville news, I finished the final edit this morning, which leaves figuring out the upload process, determining sales price, buying bar codes, and making the website live. Then it’s on to marketing and distribution.
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Greenville, that’s all I needed to hear about!
Actually, the technology thing: semester’s started and some teachers want students using “textweb” stuff. Navigating the requirements and mounds of passwords…after an hour and a half I’m flustered and done, and still have questions. Rather irritating and has lots to do with marketers working with programmers to design what they “think” is easier web surfing. Sort of like the difference between IE and Firefox; after two days of pop-up hell with Firefox, I went back to IE for my sanity.
The new age of gripes I say!
Thank you for the kind remarks about mitigating my pain, not often people actually notice about other’s pain. : )
You sound just like me Mary. I have tons of notes. I’ll write down idea’s that sound really good to me and most of the time my notes have total recall. Every once in a while I’ll look at something I’ve jotted down and have NO idea what I was thinking about when I wrote it down!!! LOL!!! Does that ever happen to you???
How you holding up today in this cold?? We had -31 at 6:30 am.
I’d like to hear about everything you have on your list.
I realise this isn’t terribly relevant, but when you talked about reaching the end of a writing notebook it reminded me that I’m currently reading online, Doris Lessing’s novel, “The Golden Notebook”, written in the format of several notebooks kept by a novelist.
It’s not a particularly easy online read, but it’s made interesting by the comments of a selected group of feminist literary academics in the sidebar throughout the 600 or so pages.
For what it’s worth, here’s the link: http://thegoldennotebook.org/book/p1/
Technology: Shouldn’t it be Getting Easier is exactly what’s been going through my mind since Friday. Work and home have been an endless stream of systems not functioning since Friday, and I really gotta wonder if it’s worth it. I didn’t blog about it, because the last thing I’ve wanted to do was sit on a computer anymore after all of that, even for a blog post. Plus, I’d already just whined about the weather on my blog, so I didn’t want to whine about technology.
Anyway, I’m curious about your thoughts on the topic!
Hi, All! Delightful to have so many wonderful comments waiting. Looks like technology (and its malfunctioning) is a hot topic. My husband is actually the source of the tech-related topic on my list. I took notes, so hopefully I can recreate in writing the tech issues he was having that led to my thoughts.
Like you, Joy, most of the time I have instant recall with notes, but not always. I try to write as much as I can at the time of the thought so I don’t have to rely on my memory.
LK – You are the curious one about Greenville. It’s getting closer. Don’t chew your nails down to the quick. If it isn’t out soon, I’ll have already chewed mine off. – As for the pain, I’ve become especially attuned to back pain since Hubby suffered a back injury from repetitive lifting. He appears to be this guy who can lift anything, so everyone asks him to do the heavy lifting and I have to jump in and say, “Oh, no, you’ll do nothing of the sort.” It’s a hidden injury, so people simply don’t realize how bad lifting is in his situation.
Christopher – No worries about going off topic. You’re simply expanding the dialogue. Thanks for the link. The format sounds intriguing.
Amy & Joy – It’s cold, cold, cold here. I think I heard 22 degrees below zero Fahrenheit last night. My car wouldn’t start this morning. Blast! I’m starting to feel like you, Amy. This is getting old very quickly. Minnesotan or not, there comes a point when the groundhog can’t show himself soon enough.
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