moron-a-bonics

now playing: willy porter, "infinity" (on repeat in winamp...it's that kind of day)


whenever i log onto blogger to update my journal, i usually scan the list of recently published blogs and open any whose titles sound intriguing to see what's out there. i've found some great reads that way, and i've found some completely unintelligible crap that way, as well. unfortunately, the latter is the rule and not the exception.

i've lamented in the past how so many of the other blogs out there are rambling, pointless diatribes about crushes or exams or cliques or who's "in" or "out" on a given day (or afternoon, even). now, don't get me wrong - i was fifteen once, and i completely understand and empathize with how huge these issues are when you've had limited time to experience other things in life...and i know in my heart of hearts that somewhere out there in cyberspace, there's an absolutely brilliant teenager who's writing about these things in a way that's absolutely captivating...and i will find that individual someday.

unfortunately, in the meantime, i find myself reading shit like this:

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me scared scared....irst time seeing u so mad leh....sry leh....At Jeanyip, you showed e stylist e 'V' hairstyle which u wan...lolx....e person so bo skills...cut my hair till so short and ugly! Sobx Sobx....

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THIS IS AN ACTUAL, "CUT AND PASTE" QUOTE. I AM NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP.

as time passes of late, i become more and more convinced that the tendency of internet users to allow their language use to deteriorate is going to destroy any semblance of actual communication skills that The Beavis Nation has left.

now, i can LOL and LMAO with the best of them, IMHO. but seriously....that's not really supposed to be in english, is it?

i'd publish the link to this TeenDweeb's page, but i'm still a little embarrased that i ended up there in the first place...

ok, rant over. we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

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i'm learning a pretty serious lesson of late regarding the ability to make decisions. in a couple of areas, actually. one of them being during the process of finally redesigning and publishing tomhampton.com to the web - i'm finding that i have plenty of ideas when a client has a general blueprint of what they want, and that i'm fine when working within those parameters, but in this case, the sky's the limit...i can do whatever i want...and i'm finding that i'm coming up short on ideas, and that what i have done so far hasn't exactly gotten my blood pressure up...the current design is ok, but i don't think it'll be the last re-write. this could go on indefinitely.

i also need to make some decisions about how i prioritize my time - i just don't seem to have enough of it. i know, i know...this is nothing new. no big revelations here... but it's becoming a problem. the eternal battle between what i want to do and what i need to do in order to move forward in life is stirring up some dust in my head...and i'm going to have to make some cuts at some point soon, and i know it's not gonna involve scaling back my business, so this one is gonna require some thought...there's a lot that i want to take on, too, down the road, and i can't go on forever getting four hours of sleep a night every night of the week and then pissing away the weekend, catching up on the sleep i've lost. talk about a waste of time...

speaking of wasting time, i have three huge projects that have nothing to do with my website or personal life hanging over my head here...must focus...