Blank page syndrome...

To do:

1) Go bikeriding; you went jogging yesterday and need to rest your knee from impact today

2) Forget that you'll never find any way to prove that you're a competent programmer, so you won't find a programming job, so when you finally lose your job, you'll be unable to find anything because you've wasted all your time trying to study programming

3) Forget about all marriage problems

4) Decide that the answer to 2), above, is to study some networking mixed in with the programming, and remember that you know more about how to learn about programming than you did the last few times you decided to try to become a programmer

5) Decide that the answer to 3) above, doesn't exist at all while depressed, so you need to change your mood before trying to do anything about it.

Blank page syndrome...

To do:

1) Go bikeriding; you went jogging yesterday and need to rest your knee from impact today

2) Forget that you'll never find any way to prove that you're a competent programmer, so you won't find a programming job, so when you finally lose your job, you'll be unable to find anything because you've wasted all your time trying to study programming

3) Forget about all marriage problems

4) Decide that the answer to 2), above, is to study some networking mixed in with the programming, and remember that you know more about how to learn about programming than you did the last few times you decided to try to become a programmer

5) Decide that the answer to 3) above, doesn't exist at all while depressed, so you need to change your mood before trying to do anything about it.

Ref: previous entry

Dang it, this will post BEFORE the later one. Oh well.

"Blank page syndrome" was the title, where I was talking about bad feelings about life right now, because of a problem that is really the same thing as "blank page syndrome".

If someone handed you an outline, and asked you to flesh it into an essay or report, you wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem as if you sat down to write the same essay or report. The blank page is so full of possibilities that it's threatening. Especially if you have to do something, and do it right.

My life is like that... full of possibilities and I don't know where or how to start. And, the reason they can be frustrating is that I'm already a bit underwater, and I need to get out, so there's a sense of urgency that's not normally present in 'just' blank page syndrome.

Anyway... that's the point of the title.

Ref: previous entry

Dang it, this will post BEFORE the later one. Oh well.

"Blank page syndrome" was the title, where I was talking about bad feelings about life right now, because of a problem that is really the same thing as "blank page syndrome".

If someone handed you an outline, and asked you to flesh it into an essay or report, you wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem as if you sat down to write the same essay or report. The blank page is so full of possibilities that it's threatening. Especially if you have to do something, and do it right.

My life is like that... full of possibilities and I don't know where or how to start. And, the reason they can be frustrating is that I'm already a bit underwater, and I need to get out, so there's a sense of urgency that's not normally present in 'just' blank page syndrome.

Anyway... that's the point of the title.