So, I’m back, for at least a little while. I’ve been largely unsuccessful at completing a law review article I’ve been working on for a few months now, mostly due to my complete inability to focus on the sheer drudgery of writing/typing. So instead of my usual “I will just try HARDER” claim (quickly followed by a joke about my penis), I have decided to create a commitment device.
I enjoy blogging, and have wanted to start again for a few weeks. But I feel guilty about writing one place when I should be writing another. So, I make a deal with myself. I can start a new blog, but only under strict rules: 2 posts for every half-page (single spaced), not including update posts (like this one explaining the blog, or weekly ones I will do about my progress); no never-ending blog posts to get around the restrictions; minimum of 4 posts per week. Failure to comply with any of these in a given week means that I will give 15 dollars to a charity TBD. I am taking suggestions and would prefer it not be the following: ACLU, PETA, political candidate. This starts next week and lasts until I am satisfactorily finished a first draft. To be fair to myself (and because I am setting the terms), I can apply any ONE, EXTRA whole page written in a week as a 5 dollar credit to my account, with a maximum of 15 dollars credited over the term of this device. That is, if I write two pages in a week after having written nothing the week before, I will only owe 10 dollars to charity. However, if I write 3 pages after having written nothing the week before, I still owe 10 dollars.
Some of you know, but the law review article is on the aspirational goals of a primary system, with a proposed means of valuing characteristics and aspects of the system over others, which in turn leads to a restructured format for primaries. In other words, snoozeville.
One page per week? That’s like 4 lines a day (I know how many lines there are on a page and its 16). Come on, wussyboy, pony up more than that. Also, I disapprove of this “donating money to charity” thing. Instead I propose that for every week you don’t write 5 pages you buy me a diamond. Yes. A big shiny one.