To blog or not to Blog

Since on Tuesday’s I don’t have to be on campus until noonish, I generally give myself an extra hour of sleep. That didn’t work so well this morning because I forgot to reset the alarm to Tuesday time. So I got up at my normal 7:30 ish…or whenever I stop shutting off the snooze on the 3 alarms I have set. You see, I sleep like the dead and need those 3 alarms just to have a hope of getting up on time.

So the plan was to get up and do the discussion questions for “Going To Meet The Man.”  I say was because it didn’t happen. I think this is a not so subconscious attempt to avoid the questions because I disliked the story content so much.

So what I did was cruise youtube. I love…adore…geek out…over youtube. You can find everything from music videos (YAY Queen!) to the structural details of DNA to…and this is where I proove my geekdom…videos from past science fiction cons. Yes I am a sci/fi geek. I love all things science fiction, I can do the Vulcan hand greeting (with both hands!) and I love every incarnation of Star Trek (except Nemesis!) What I wound up finding were videos of a talk Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher Trek Next Gen) gave at a con (short for convention).

You’re probably wondering at this point why I’m blogging about this. Well the simple fact is, Wil Wheaton blogs and I’ve read his blogs for about a year now. I find them to be slices of his daily life that give me an insight into the mind of a ‘celebrity.’ They are also very clearly and well crafted in the writing and I’ve decided when my blog grows up, I want it to be like Wil Wheaton’s.

I’m now on campus, waiting for the students I’m to tutor to show up today. Naturally, the first one cancelled and I didn’t think to call in and check, so I have a little extra time on my hands. Did I do the smart thing and bring my American Lit text so I could work on the discussion questions? Of course not…there’s that subconscious at work again.  So instead I decided to do today’s blog and as usual it wanders all over the place. 

So there you have it, I didn’t get the discussion questions done yet, I will, but probably not today. I’ll be on campus from now (noonish) till 9 pm tonight and by the time I get home I’ll probably just stare blindly at whatever my husband has on the tv till he looks at me and says, “go to bed, you’re fried.”  At least I can say I did something for American Lit today, I blogged.