Truant Apr 18, 2007
I haven’t posted a blog entry in months.
The reason for this is very similar to the reason why I missed so many classes in college. See, I’d skip a class or two ‘cause I wanted to sleep in, or stare at the closet door in my dorm room, or do some other very pressing thing, and then I’d get kind of blocked on the idea of going to class. Sure, that sounds weird, but look at it this way: If going to class is too hard to do when you DON’T have any compelling reason not to, how impossible is it to psych yourself up to show when you just know you’re going to get surprised by a test or pounced on by the professor for slacking (worst case) or just be hopelessly behind (best case) after you’ve blown it off a few times? I even had a couple of instances (yes, as in more than one) where I showed up after a prolonged absence only to discover that FINAL EXAMS were being administered that day. Fortunately, I was good at school if not a good student, so I always managed to bluff my way to a B or C. Nevertheless, my chronic absences were a source of much worrying to me. Not that I did anything about them. Like show up.
So here I am, back in blog world, where I guess I won’t get pounced on or surprised, and where my absence was—just as in college—not even noticed by anyone but me. At least I have the satisfaction of knowing that while I was gone, I ate David’s burrito and didn’t have to tell anyone about it.
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