Numb Trolleybus

Quotables

"Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. ... I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"On the surface, it sounds irresponsible, but to flourish in a rapidly changing world, you actually need to make more mistakes. Fail quickly. Fail often. If you do something and it doesn't work, just recover in a hurry and try something else. ... Help develop a culture that is willing to fail its way to the future."

-- Price Pritchett, Culture Shift

"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction -- every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour."

-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

completion

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

This entry wraps up our annual 30 Days of Blog campaign. Yeah, the first and last entries of the month pretty much write themselves, you jot down something about how you're going to have all this free time on your hands, and if you're not blogging, what are you really going to be doing with yourself, anyway?

Believe me, something will come up.

Many thanks to my good friend Jerry for his successful participation in this year's 30 Days, and big hugs go out to Katherine and Jen, who, um... were not as overwhelmingly successful. But like NaNoWriMo, the important thing is that you stepped up to the plate and gave it a few swings. My intention from this point on is always to blog much more often than I used to, even if it's not daily, so we'll see how much luck I have with that.

Having said all that, this concludes our 30 Days of Blog, we will have to do it again next year. :)

posted by N.T. @ 11:55 PM

2 Comments:

At July 1, 2009 1:48 AM, T.R. said…

I would have. Had I know about this earlier and decided to start one earlier. Maybe I'll just post 30 in a row to make up for it
At October 7, 2009 12:09 AM, Erin said…

:( i tried, but my effort pretty much sucked after a few days. maybe next year...you know, while my husband is on deployment and i have a 3 month old :)