Well, there was a flare-up of activity for my Open Salon post about the plagiarism episode.  Now I'm back to regular blogging and... what I write about regularly isn't as note-worthy.  It doesn't get as much  notice, most people don't comment and few rate it at all.  I need to find something more compelling than my life to write about.

My Blogger account, I think,  is going to see more activity.  From me, anyway.  I have a lot more energy and am having a screwy day today, so I'll probably update it a few times with stuff and nonsense as it occurs to me.

This is a kind of writer's block.  One of my friends would experience depressive episodes where he had to go down to the gym and burn off energy at the expense of a punching bag.  He had more energy when he was depressed.  That's like me with writer's block: I want to chitter away about anything else in the world other than what I should be focusing on.

I just wrote a blog entry about foreign online radio, and I'm about to write one about how to make yams palatable.  I hate yams, but I know they're nutritious so I'm trying to learn to eat them.  I found a way to disguise their flavor entirely: sautee them with onions and carrots, then bury them in curry!  If I ever formalize a recipe, you bet it'll go online.

But I should be applying for jobs.  I should be looking for freelance gigs.  I should be sending out manuscripts and doing research for Helium.com articles.  I should at least be doing tonight's homework!  But I'm doing none of these things, I'm being a flake and looking for ways to expend all this directionless energy.  I may fire up Wii Fit and work out to exhaust my body and then sit down and get some decent writing done.  Maybe.

It's interesting to me that tonight's homework is to write up a short- and long-term writing schedule for myself.  What I'm going to do on a daily basis, and what I hope to achieve in the next few weeks and months.  Irony!