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Productivity

The Drudge

I struggle with the drudge. At times I create far more work for myself than is necessary just to avoid the drudge. I would much rather teach a concept differently and try something else out than start from last year’s content and improve it from there. The thought of teaching exactly the same lessons in exactly the same way for 30-40 years of a teaching career is not even an imaginable concept for me.

In many ways, this is a massive advantage to my teaching. It keeps things fresh, means I am constantly re-evaluating my own approaches and reduces the instinct to ignore student feedback in the interests of just making my life easier. All of which are great. But it is massively inefficient and it causes me to tinker with certain approaches, make big promises to my students about how we will make things work only to abandon that plan without acknowledgment a few lessons later because I have absent-mindedly moved on to the next great idea.

Trouble is: to fix my drudge-avoidance is usually to try out a new strategy: exactly the drug that gets me in this trouble in the first place. There is no new routine that is not worth dropping the last one for. And so the cycle continues.

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Back!

I am interested in exploring writing again, and while there is no real reason to be doing so in a potentially public forum, there’s also no real reason to suspect this writing will find an audience either.

I have, at different times, really enjoyed blogging, primarily while I was working in IT. So perhaps the itch that was being scratched with a regular writing habit is no longer a need: meaning this writing project could just die on the vine. But there is definitely something somewhere in there: in part, I have been inspired by having several people (albeit mostly family members) reminding me that I have always been a bit of a writer, but

And the truth is somewhere in there I would desperately love to do some real writing some day. It would be great to write a book. Naturally I could not yet even position that mythical book as even fiction or non-fiction, let alone in any particular genre, so the dream could potentially reside in a pipe but no matter.