Well despite my last post, I am now giving myself the “bad blogger award.” I suck at this. Seriously, where have I been?
Sometimes I think, well all these moms have time to blog because they stay at home. I am never at home, so it’s no wonder I can’t find time for this. But wait… these moms have KIDS. Hence the title “mom.” I have no kids, so I have no excuse. Okay, well maybe the fact that I am in school, teaching two college classes and working a tiny bit on the side does make me a little busy. Perhaps reading literary theory on the Renaissance, trying to figure out how to conduct qualitative research for my digital literacies class, teaching three days a week, grading 37 essays a month, trying to keep my house clean and making coffee for impatient snowbirds in Scottsdale is the equivalent of a baby or two? I hope so. That’s my excuse. Mental note: cut back on schedule before procreating…
It also doesn’t help that our internet does not work well at our house. I mean, why should it? We don’t pay for it. We have always picked up an open signal since moving in, so we never bothered to actually pay for our internet. Is that stealing? Using some waves floating around in the air? I don’t think so. I think another reason we never really got around to buying our internet is because we also don’t have a TV and it seemed pointless to go to the effort to buy an internet package without a cable package. Anyway, our internet is free, but it is also very low quality. Sometimes it won’t work for days at a time. Usually, I am at school anyway, so I have little need for the internet at home, but still it’s still a bit inconvenient. This week we are having internet problems again, but not just because our weak signal is having trouble floating over from four doors down. Our most generous, anonymous internet provider has forgotten to pay his or her bill! Our signal is actually better than ever, but when you open the browser a window pops up that says “Hello friend, due to a missed payment your internet service has been temporarily disconnected. It will be reconnected when you pay your outstanding balance and a reinstillation fee. Please call … with any questions.” Yesterday, I was seriously tempted to call the number to see if we could afford to pay their bill, because I was needing the web! But a reinstallation fee for reactivating your service? Mental note #2: When we finally get around to purchasing real internet service, remember that Cox Internet is out to get you with fees…
So here’s the deal… I will be back soon. Hopefully in the next week or two. My mom is coming to visit me this week and I am taking a little time off from the coffee shop to hang out with her. After she leaves, I am continuing my time off until the end of the semester so I can get two massive research papers written. Hopefully, this time off will allow me to get my school work done and leave a little extra time to blog (since I am supposed to be blogging for school anyway…). But in five short weeks, summer will be here! And hopefully in the summer I will have time to blog like mad and lose this “bad blogger” reputation of mine…
