Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Missing in Blogistan Thanks, again, to those who've sent kind wishes or not so gentle nudges my way. It's true, I have been a blog-avoider (again!) for the last few weeks. I don't know why, really. Mostly it's a time thing. I have felt totally inundated with work (trying, miserably, to finish a report for a consulting client, and feeling woefully inadequate in the process) and the mishmash stuff I deal with managing our lives (bookkeeping for my husband's company, dealing with getting our tax stuff together to close out the year, blah blah blah) not to mention playing general contractor on our house....and then, before I know it, it's evening time and all I want to do is crawl into bed. (More like, lug my sluggish giant body into bed. Oh yeah, the belly is here.) I also wonder what role politics,or the lack thereof, is playing in my silence. In the wake of the election, we pretty much turned off the TV in our home. Neither the H nor I could deal with the painful (to us) post-election commentary, or the snarking grins of the newly-capitalized GW. As I noted in an earlier post, when we moved, we decided to stay off the media grid for a while--this from two people who are zealots when it comes to the life-changing merits of TiVo, early adopters of HDTV Voom satellite service, and general reality-television, HBO and PBS junkies. Now, no satellite. No cable. And since we have no antenna, no network. When it turns on, it's to watch a movie, some for Dido, some for us. The result is more family time, less grumping from a previously Sesame Street-addicted toddler--all good. But it also means that I get my news from the newspapers, magazines and sites I read--and I haven't made much time for them of late. I feel guilty about being so checked out, and yet--I don't. There is a hideous part of me that just wants to keep my head down in the sand for the next four years, and hope that change will come. I know that's poor behavior for a citizen, and I also know that change comes from action and attention, not ignorance...and thus my dilemma. But in the meantime, I'll try to be a better blogger, and to find other topics upon which to discourse (though not, for example, the thirty Christmas presents I have to wrap today! I'll spare you that particular tedium of mine.) 9:24:26 AM     comment [] trackback []