Slacking Already

Procrastination is not a trait that I want to be associated with me. In fact, I'd prefer it if procrastination took a flying leap. However, since my orders to vacate tend to go unheeded with the old "I'll do it later" feeling, I have to just force myself to overcome. Keeping a journal of sorts is so much easier when you just do it regularly. I learned that in 2009 when I kept a journal of daily events every day of the year. It's interesting to go back and read some of the entries. Many things that happened to me, while inconsequential, I'd forgotten about. If you get out of the habit of making a daily record, which I did as soon as we moved to Oklahoma, it is very hard to get back into it, which I've failed to do despite having a journal sitting on my dresser since moving here. Here we are already into February and still, I haven't taken it up again. Gotta work on that.

This week all of OKC suffered through a pretty substantial winter storm. We probably got about 8 inches of snow, but it was hard to tell because the wind pushed it all up into drifts everywhere, so in some places there was just a skiff, but other places were knee deep. The knee-deep places were on my driveway and back porch. The skiff places were the front and back lawn. I would never need to shovel the lawn, so naturally that is where the least amount of snow accumulated. Did I mention that I left my snow shovel and snow blower in Utah? If you feel like morphing into an angry sailor, just try to shovel two feet of snow off a sixty-foot driveway with a flathead shovel. At least I can put a check mark next to that experience.

School is going well. The classes are interesting and the professors continue to be cryptic at times. Trying to understand the Erie Doctrine is like trying to put that square in a round hole. As smart as the Supreme Court Justices are (or at least claim to be), you'd think after so many years, they'd figure out a way to make things a little simpler than what they are. Oh well.