Things Worth Doing, part I: Why?

(10:34:49) Curtis: you're really picky, aren't you?

Have you seen "Once More, With Feeling" (an episode of Buffy, somewhere in the 6th season)? Or maybe Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings"? Or perhaps you've read J. Michael Straczinsky's graphic novel "Midnight Nation"? Read Asimov's "The Gods Themselves", or Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game", or Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

Each of the above, in some way, sits in my memory as a source of truth; an example of what I expect when I sit down to watch TV, or a movie; when I pick up a comic book, or a S/F novel; when I read a poem. Is that a bad thing?

Writing this article, I find myself thinking about a lot of things: the nature of time; my arch-nemesis, "sleep"; the creative process; my thoughts and feelings regarding elitism; the concept of "intellectual property"; the value of entertainment in society. I'm probably not going to be able to tie all of that into a coherent article in one shot, but here's some things to think about.

We have a limited number of hours alloted to us in which to do. . .well, EVERYTHING.

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OK, by this point, all of you should be familiar with my feelings on sleep. If you're not, well...PAY ATTENTION! Sleep is the enemy.

More accurately, time is the enemy. There are so very very many things in life worth doing, that I find myself unable to even enjoy sleeping because I lie in the state between waking and dreaming, filled with frustration at the prospect that I'm simply wasting time.

Curtis accused me of being "picky", and this is true. Given an infinite amount of time, I feel supremely confident that I would never actually grow "bored", because I want to know *everything*. I want to experience all that is worth experiencing, and there simply isn't time for it. Thus, anything that is of less-than-excellent quality that consumes my time is a source of bitterness and frustration to me, because those are minutes and hours I'll never "get back."

Therefore, in an effort to expand my little Cult of Personality, I will be using this blog as a forum to spread my disease. I'm going to share some "Things Worth Doing", and maybe you'll all start seeing things a little more...hurriedly. :)