Overcoming Inertia Part 1 · 16 January 2008
Thank you, thank you, thank you to those who popped me a line to make sure that I was okay after I stopped posting here.
When last seen, I was re-entering the smoldering county of San Diego after the aptly named Firestorm 2007 As you might imagine, taking an unexpected week out of the office so soon after a long vacation didn’t help out my projected schedule for catching up at work. Compounding my lack of free time were winter finals and a website development deadline fast approaching. I found myself leaving the house at 8:00 a.m. each morning and crashing into bed near midnight, stopping work of one kind or another only for the bare necessities of food and maintaining my closest circle of friends. Exhaustion quickly set in and despite good intentions, I found it impossible to keep up Honeyed Words.
I missed it.
And yet, when finals ended in late-December and I was released from the madness of 14 hour work-days, I didn’t immediately start posting again. Never one to balk at an opportunity for self-examination, I decided this week was the time to figure out and face up to the reasons I’ve had a month in which I could have posted, and haven’t.
After finals I hadn’t read for pleasure in over a month, much less cooked anything more exciting than rice and beans. I had been traveling a thousand thoughts per minute on the serious path of work and study, and when I screeched to a halt after finals, I crashed. Even the thought of gathering the spark of creative energy needed to start an inspired Honeyed Words book/food pairing was exhausting. And so, even though I’d occasionally stumble onto an idea I could have turned into a post, I didn’t develop it, knowing that I didn’t have the energy to turn it into a coherent themed series. Instead, I wrote nothing.
The first thing I made myself realize this week was that I had to stop seeing Honeyed Words as an obligation, an all or nothing proposition in which anything less than meeting all my goals was unacceptable. Until this week, I felt hemmed in by my vision for the site, bound to post on-topic or not at all.
Therein is my regret, that because I wasn’t willing to make allowances for myself, I posted nothing. So dear readers, I hope that you come here because you enjoy it, and I hope that I’ll continue to deliver posts that make you want to come back, but for now bear with me, because instead of talking myself out of posting by making myself get back on the regularly scheduled topics of books and the food that is inspired by them, I’m going to be rambling a bit.
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Nymeth · 17 January 2008, 01:47
Rambling is more than okay. You definitely don’t need to stay on topic. It’s good to hear from you :)
Ann · 18 January 2008, 12:48
Ramble on sweet girl!
Dark Orpheus · 18 January 2008, 17:49
Glad to have you back. Ramble is good for the soul, so ramble away.
Jackson · 18 January 2008, 18:27
Hooray, HW is back! :-D
heather (errantdreams) · 23 January 2008, 06:58
IMO, never let your blog become an obligation, and never proscribe yourself from going ‘off-topic’ when you need or want to. Blogs are generally meant to be more personal than other sorts of web sites, and that’s okay!
Kim · 28 January 2008, 22:08
Thanks guys. I’m taking the advice to heart!
Chris · 3 February 2008, 07:53
Hey Kim! It’s so good to hear from you again. I totally agree with Heather…never let it become an obligation. Missed you!
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