Don't get used to it

Don't get me wrong, if I didn't like communicating I wouldn't be 1) a professor, 2) an extrovert, or c) blogging about anything (possible exception: a blog entitled my life without a computer). But I don't plan on blogging EVERY day - I would like to settle down to a couple times a week thing.

That said, the first 24 hours hours of any endeavour can often be pretty interesting.

Mondays are pretty busy for me, so avoidance of sports - not so challenging. Truthfully, the Steeler fan in me would have been avoiding all sports channels anyway for fear of reading about the other team, how Aaron Rogers has already achieved Saint Hood (St. Aaron of the Gouda, anyone), how many people were arrested in both towns for setting fire to furniture in the streets, whether it be in celebration or dismay. When pouting about my team, I tend to avoid learning anything about my team.

So let me address some of the questions you've asked thus far:

• Just what am I avoiding? - I've blocked my goto websites, removed all fan pages from my facebook feed, tried to unsubscribe from any sports emails, and will be blocking all sports TV at home. I will skip sports sections of newspapers too, and when eating out, try to avoid sitting in view of sports (which may be hard, but Allyson can tell you, I usually try to sit watching sports - not good for dinner convo). If someone brings up sports, I'll try to explain what I'm doing - soon, I won't be much good at talking sports anyway
• Am I just a sore loser and that's why I'm doing this? - Yes, and yes. I have become a very sore loser, and it had been getting worse. Would I have been inspired to do this had the Steelers won? It's hard to be inspired to anything good when you're busy smugly rubbing a victory in peoples faces and writing mean posts on facebook.
• Are you going to regret this sudden decision? - I'm going to grow from this. Growth isn't supposed to be comfortable, and I bet there are times coming soon when I'm going to regret this, but I'm going to focus on the chance to explore so much more than box scores and strategies. I have some big plans, just wait and see. I hope to get to some of that later this week.

It's about the journey. If I don't get my head about me, who knows where I'll be swept off to.

Lessons learned for the day: Greek MTV is kinda like India MTV, only with longer format songs, greek letters, it's called Blue (in English), and it seems they have a a thing for backdrops that you'd find at a midwestern yardsale.