Friday, June 03, 2005
(7:19 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional
A bulleted list of confessions:
- I confess that I worry far too much and end up wasting a lot of time as a result.
- I confess that one of my biggest worries is that I'm wasting time, which sometimes produces a pretty vicious feedback cycle.
- I confess that a close friend captured the reality almost perfectly when she said that I am by turns extremely humble and extremely arrogant.
- I confess that my level of apprehensiveness about walking around Chicago alone at night has gone way down since I moved here (within certain limits, of course).
- I confess that I have been subject to some pretty serious mood swings lately.
- I confess that a few days ago, on the bus to Hyde Park, it was so full that a couple people had to stand right at the part where the two halves of a double-length bus met, meaning they had to shift around to keep their balance at every turn, and I felt bad for them without once seriously considering giving them my seat.
- I confess that I haven't bought a book in a long time and I'm starting to get withdrawal.
[Non-bulleted confession: I respond to e-mails too fast in general. I am thinking of implementing a next-day policy for something like business-related e-mails -- if it's someone writing me about something important, and if it can wait, I'm going to wait. I don't think I've necessarily made any serious missteps as a result of my always-empty-inbox neurosis, but I just want to make sure that I'm not transfering the instant-reaction mindset of the blogosphere (and all the thoughtlessness it brings with it) to other areas of life.]
Confess, confess -- be shriven, my dearly beloved.
