Crimson Crux

I think my year is off to a bad start, with regard to clearing my backlog for everything — books, web projects, lit works, even cleaning the house (the glory of being an only child with no mom). Two salient queues I have right now consist of 1) my blog posts, and 2) my magazines.

First, I have at least 35 outstanding blog drafts, 19 of which are for this blog alone! The stillborn remnants of would-be posts are scattered among my desktop Stickies, text files, cellphone notes, and my “mol-eh-skin-ah“. Oh, and don’t remind me about my 60+ remaining problogging assignments for the month.

Second, I’ve got five magazines left to devour — three Dragon issues, a single Dungeon, and a single Communications of the ACM. These mags are supposed to be a break from all the carpal tunnel syndrome-inducing blogging, but more and more reading them has become a task. (Especially with the ACM mag — computer science stuff!)

If you’ve been around here since June 2006, then you already know I’m a sucker for things D&D and roleplaying. Make no mistake — reading issues of the Dragon and the Dungeon has always been a pleasant experience. However I suffer from what I dare call the “trivial accomplishments” syndrome — having a list on the back of your mind where you jot down what you need to buy, read, write, watch on TV, watch on DVD, wipe off the dust from, etcetera.

These things sometimes heavily preoccupy the mind that I eat lunch and dinner standing and I can’t sleep well, thinking what I would do the next day, the next hour, the next minute. Such a syndrome mars the experience of reading even the most-loved books and magazines.

The Communications of the ACM is another matter. I look at it as a way for me to keep in touch with my University education (i.e. CompSci). I liked certain articles so much in my first copy that I resolved to blog about them (graah, blog backlog!). So imagine my frustration when the December-January issue arrived, filled with new topics that I might again potentially want to blog!

It’s good that I was able to blog a little about ACM and SEO on our Ituloy AngSulong blog. That’s one entry down, and dozens more to go.

Have you met a person who’s infallible to the succubus that is Procrastination? I’d like to meet him, too. Anyway, with the weekend offering some breathing room and a big project at work just finished, I’m looking to shave off something from my backlogs. Wish me luck.