Monday Morning Breakfast Cereal

There is something that I've been struggling to put into words for a while now... something good, but also big and complicated. And then today, as I'm sure has happened to so many other people in the history of the internet, the fourth panel of a Zach Weiner cartoon summed it up pretty well.

( Cut for huge freaking comic. )

(I can also identify with the first panel to a frightening degree.)

The guy in the strip, of course, is putting off the necessary mental restructuring. I've kind of been embracing it. I changed some of the external circumstances of my life earlier this year, and I'd kind of been waiting to feel the results of that, but they never came. Even when things quieted down and the dust settled and the smoke cleared, I still felt like nothing much had really changed and I realize now that this was because I hadn't changed.

So while I've been rooted in one spot for a bit longer than I have been otherwise recently, I've been taking some time to do some work on myself. Life-hacking. Mind-hacking, even. It's a work in progress, as a life always is when you're living it, but I'm pleased with the results.

"Be the change you want to see in the world," Gandhi said. First, though, I think it's necessary to become the change you wish to see in yourself.

Remaining Tasks For Tuesday

• Do another page of character tag descriptions in Tales of MU.
  
• An hour of NaNoWriMo.
  
• Begin (at least half an hour) the next chapter of Tales of MU.
  

It's a sparse day because it's going to be a busy day away from the keyboard.