Things I Would Like to Blog About

I feel like my life has been really chaotic lately. Part of it is my life, part of it is my ever-racing, never-ceasing mind that likes to over-analyze and hyper-dramatize everything that happens. Every single little seemingly insignificant thing that happens has a reason, a motivation, a longer story than one would ever care to think about. Except me. I would not only care to think about it, but I would also like to overly obsess about it, running through all of the different scenarios, possibilities, and reasons.

So, when my life is chaotic due to circumstances, it always ends up being several times more chaotic due to the racing thoughts in my head.

And when I wake up with a pulled muscle in my neck/shoulders, unable to do anything but think, it becomes nearly unbearable.

Sometimes I wish I could shut my brain off long enough to process the stuff that is already in it, before I have time to add anything else.  But, last time I did that, I became an over-zealous conservative Christian, who believed a lot of really stupid things, and I don’t want that.

I can’t blog when I am like this.  I can’t focus enough to make my point clearly.  Then, there’s the second-guessing.  I read, and re-read, and re-read the post and it is just never right, so it sits in draft indefinitely.  All of my blogs are full of never-published posts that were just not quite good enough.

So, these are the things that I want to post about, that I hope to post about when I can quiet my mind enough to formulate a coherent post.

• I listened to a great podcast today about skepticism and libertarianism.
• I have been observing a multi-party e-mail discussion regarding the Moran Plant development in Burlington.
• Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins was dating Jessica Simpson.  I don’t normally care about celebrity gossip, but WTF?  That is an odd pairing that – surprise, surprise – didn’t last long.
• Radical unschoolers are an unbelievably dogmatic group, which I find ironic because it’s a parenting philosophy based on letting go of expectations and going with the flow.
• The Massachusetts election.
• Glenn Beck is a total creep.  No, I mean more so than you thought.
• Thoughts about the blog, by a woman who left the Quiverfull/Patriarchy movement, that I have been obsessively reading.
• A video a Christian friend sent me and stuff it brought up about my Christian experience.
• I’m sure there’s more…

I wanted to make this list, so I would remember what I wanted to blog about when I had some time, and clarity of mind, to write a few posts, or even one.

Right now, my neck/shoulders are hurting, so I need to get back to my heating pad.

Feel free to discuss any of these topics, or whatever is on your mind, in the comments.  I want to see some good comment-talk going on this blog.  That’s often the best part of a blog.