Too Much Stuff To Do, Too Little Time To Do It…

The title should probably read, “Too much stuff I want to do…”

This post is the kind of stream-of-thought missive usually found in the pages of my journal. What do I want? To be able to quit the 9-5 for good, and I could — if I had other income rolling in. I heard that blogger Andrew Sullivan had a pledge drive and raised $79,000 from his readers so he could blog full time. Is that true? If I could get that kind of cash…If you’d like to donate to my quit-the-day-job fund, don’t be shy! I’m kidding. Sort of.

I’m working on the DC Blogger meet-up post, and the picture on the right is a teaser. I call it “The Ladies.” I’d also need to finish the 2004 Blogosphere Round-up post by tomorrow, too, but it’s taking longer than I thought. I’d like it to be special. Different. I need to say something no one else has said, or at least say it in a fresh way. I’m not using hyperbole when I say blogging is revolutionary. I want to do it justice.

Many bloggers have said (and I’ll cite a few tomorrow) that blogging is to the mainstream media what the printing press (and the Protestant Reformation) was to the Roman Catholic Church.

Speaking of reformation, I just got a review copy of Hugh Hewitt’s new book in the mail, BLOG: Understanding the Information Reformation, and I can’t wait to read it. I’d like to have the review completed and circulating (in a paying market) this week, but between working all day and having to eat and sleep, I suppose, and trying to do all the other stuff on my list, it’s not likely.

I’m also shopping around an op-ed I wrote this weekend, and given the subject matter, it must be published within the next few days, or it becomes too old, last week’s news. Marketing is very time-consuming. Writing is much more than sitting down and creating a coherent article. You have to target the right publication, or you’re just wasting valuable time.

Then, sometime in the next few months, I’d like to take an intensive course on Christian apologetics. With assaults on the faith and historical lies and inaccuracies floating around (The Da Vinci Code movie is on the horizon — Also see the book review) and increasing every day, I need to be equipped to defend my faith. Reading and studying on my own or in Sunday school is fine, but I need the incentive of tests to really study a subject.

Then, I have to prepare for this conference, where I’m guest-teaching. I want to spend the time between now and April building my clip file so I’ll have new material to share with the students. I also want to impress them. I admit it.

Thanks for reading this post. I’m deliriously tired, so I think I’ll crash. It’s only nine-ish, but I’m usually up at 4:30 a.m. Comments are closed for this post, but if you’d like to respond, e-mail me.

To the people who responded to my posts in the past few days, especially the Ann Coulter one, I haven’t had time to respond in the comments the way I usually do. But I appreciate your kind words and your readership more than you know.

Sweet dreams.

Update (1/4): Linkage and other interesting things:

• Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s former campaign manager, e-mailed me a few days ago after she found this post. She’s very cordial and open to discussions with people who don’t share her ideology. About Condoleezza Rice she wrote: “I fully support Dr. Rice…not withstanding my politics as a self proclaimed liberal Democrat. Dr. Rice will have the strong support of many Black Democratic women and so many others.”
• Ego Booster of the Day: Someone did a search for “good blog,” and out of 19,900,000 result, I’m #1.
• Baldilocks on “Making Peace with Being Single, Part I and Part II
• Jim Cannon solicits your support for the tsunami victims. He says, “[A]ll the money raised goes straight…to World Vision. I won’t see anything other than a confirmation email saying that the money had been donated.”
• Captain’s Quarters is on top of fundraising efforts, too.
• The Anchoress on tsunami and pastels
• John Hawkins on the 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2004
• A BLOGorian Calendar?
• Phil C. asks: “Is my church governed by a heretic?”
• My friend Carlotta Morrow, who runs The Truth About Kwanzaa, was quoted extensively in this Seminole Chronicle article.
• CrushKerry needs your input on their new blog
• Thomas Sowell on homosexual “marriage”: “Marriage laws have evolved through centuries of experience with couples of opposite sexes — and the children that result from such unions. Society asserts its stake in the decisions made by restricting the couples’ options…Society has no such stake in the outcome of a union between two people of the same sex. Transferring all those laws to same-sex couples would make no more sense than transferring the rules of baseball to football.”
• David Limbaugh on how the left exploits tragedy for political gain: “It’s instructive that the very people who constantly call for a spirit of collegiality and bipartisanship have somehow managed to politicize the most apolitical of all events.”
• Check out A Physicist’s Perspective’s illegal immigration round-up
• Joe Carter has a cool series about blogs (how to start, how to become an A-list blogger, etc.). The Art of Marketing Your Blog is the fourth installment, and he provides links to the others.
• Booker Rising has written a memo to incoming senator Barack Obama