Okay, it's that time of semester here. 2-3 weeks after midterm. This is the time of term where two things tend to happen to me, and their combination tends to be toxic for my mental health:
A. The unrelenting and unreasonable "urgent" demands of the day job threaten take over my life. Not just 9 to 5...From 5 (or earlier) to 9 (or later), every day of the week. As a result the parts of life that matter to me -- my time with God, my scholarship, my attempting to treat students as individuals rather than sources of work and annoyance, etc. -- tend to increasingly disappear for weeks or months.
B. My commitment to reducing the shit backload of the crap I've allowed to accumulate over years 1-53 disappears.
I'm not blaming anyone else. These are
my bad practices. But in hopes of trying to eliminate those bad practices, or at least mitigate them a bit, I'm making two requests.
1. First, I'm looking for volunteers to regularly prod me for updates on the "important bits". People who are willing to email me or whatever regularly to make sure I'm not shunting those things completely aside because of the grading, the admin bullshit, The Mom, etc. (My guess is email/PMing is probably best, since I expect no one wants to see a ongoing "here's what I've been doing and here's what I'm whining about not getting to today" as a regular thread on PH.)
2. Second, I'm looking for help with one of the major lingering pieces of shit backload that I've been putting off for months.
An extended set up:
My main "company" website is here:
ListenThinkRepeat.com , and my blog (which I haven't posted on in ages) is here:
Iterations Blog http://www.sohocopy.com/ as a "freebie" that comes if people buy the e-book (I wrote it, but as work-for-hire, I don't have the copyright ...so I put a link in to try to drive traffic for other content I once planned to write but have put far back on the backburner.
What I'm hoping to do is move everything to one webhost. I want to re-center the main website on the blog (I'm no longer in the copywriting business save as a side-side-line, though I do want to build up an educational/listening consulting business) Instead of shelling out bucks to two hosting services, I want to have just one. And while I want to keep the links to LMSM audio working, I want to get rid of the extra expense of shopping cart/autoresponders that I haven't used for, ahem, months and months, even as I'm continuing to pay for them every month like clockwork. (Story of how I ended up with all this nonsense cash outflow, and have not gotten rid of involves a serious business misstep about 3 years ago, made worse by my pride (despite having no real clue how any of this works technically I thought I could take care of it all myself), my phobias about asking for help, and a personal addiction to procrastination of the unpleasant bits of life. (Indeed, it was the experience with all this copywriting/info-products stuff that drove it home to me that while I have some good ideas for self-employment and revenue-generating activities, I'm never going to get it done unless and until I find a partner and/or people who will push me to overcome said pride, phobias, and procrastination.)
And of course I have zero tech understanding here. I may have admin access to both websites, but I am clueless in figuring things out.
So, anyway, with all that as introduction, what I'm hoping for is someone (or multiple someones) who would be willing to take me on as a project. To explain in words of few syllables the steps I need to get things done and how to do them. (Frankly, in part because of the financial consequences of those earlier bad decisions, I simply can't pay for professionals to do it for me, so I can't pay anything more than a pittance. Certainly not a market rate. At least not until such time I find that partner and can make IL viable either as a consulting enterprise or seller of t-shirts, and the earliest I expect any inflow in that regard is, well, a ways away.)
Fire away.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)