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Prime the Pump

Every day (well, every workday) I go to the same handful of blogs looking for a way to alleviate my boredom and simultaneously feel like I've somehow made personal contact with my friends. And most days those blogs don't contain any new content. And yet every day I return to them, like a dog returning to its vomit, except that I keep returning every day and the dog only returns to the vomit once, because he usually eats it.

The exception is my sister-in-law Christine who has a new post almost every day, and almost always has a funny anectdote and a story about a co-worker or a medical professional whom she has given an amusing nickname. I salute you, Christine! You regularly brighten the doldrums of library work, if only for a few fleeting moments each day. More should aspire to contribute such readable repasts to our daily web diet. And yet, with this, I must recognize that I have not been holding up my end of the bargain. And so begins my New Mission.

The New Mission coincides nicely with the beginning of Operation Summer Freedom, which basically amounts to a tactical retreat from any and all academic undertakings for the length and breadth of the season. The objectives for this summer are to get more writing done. Principally, a new episode of the Complacents to take the form of a comedy CD. For it to actually get recorded and onto a CD, it needs to be written and to not suck. Fortunately, I don't need to be the only one writing for it, but obviously I'd like to make a quality contribution. So I need to get those writing wheels a-turnin', go I've got to grease that axle. So I guess I've got 2 pumps to prime: my own writing pump, and your blogging pump. To kill both of these birds, I propose to use this blogger as my unclogger. So be warned: no telling what might come dislodged in the process!

Which reminds me of my motto in college: Writing is a process, not a progress.