Lemming Tracks: Change in Schedule

The Lemming turned 60 last Friday. ("Lemming Tracks: The Lemming Hits the Big Six-Oh" (October 1, 2011) That's a big deal for the Lemming: and marks the start of a new schedule for posts in this blog.

There's an explanation for why the Lemming's messing with routine coming later in this post. First, though, here's what to expect in Apathetic Lemming of the North: each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

'Topic of the day,' by blog:

		A Catholic Citizen in America	Apathetic Lemming of the North	Sauk Centre Journal
Sunday		Being Catholic		Weekly post
Monday		Featured topic	Science and technology
Tuesday
Wednesday		Studying the Bible and Catechism	Architecture and design
Thursday
Friday		My take on the news	Whatever
Saturday

The Lemming's rapidly running out of Monday, so here's a (fairly) brief explanation for the change in schedule. It's from another blog, where the Lemming doesn't use the 'editorial we.'

Never mind. Here's the story:

Scheduled Creativity?!

Over the years I've had quite a few jobs, from beet chopper and delivery guy to advertising copywriter and graphic designer. Then there were those stints as a radio disk jockey. And a high school teacher. Not at the same time, of course.

I've learned quite a few things, including the value of time management. Which is why there are changes coming in this and some other blogs.

I'd like to divide my time like this:

1. 100%
   Creative projects
   • Some of which have been on the back burner for
     • years
     • Decades
2. 100%
   Researching and writing posts for
   • This blog
   • My other blogs,
     [Get ready for shameless self-promotion]
     including
     • Apathetic Lemming of the North
       Micro-reviews, plus the occasional rant, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: Technical difficulties, the nature of the universe, and whim permitting
     • A Catholic Citizen in America
       Following Catholic beliefs and practices in America: One man's experience
       
     • Sauk Centre Journal Blog
       Small town life, the way it is in this central Minnesota town
     • Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space
       Notes and ruminations of a writer, recapturing traces of a decades-old dream
     • Narcissus-X
       A blog entirely devoted to the Narcissus-X blog and Narcissis-X, the blogger who blogs on Narcissus-X, about Narcissus-X
3. 100%
   Tales of
   • Loonfoot Falls
     • Small town life, the way it never was
   • Galaxy Cadet
     • Heroics and hairspray in the 27th century
   • Castle Dampthorn
     • I don't even have a tagline for this one

Obviously, that won't work, since about two thirds of the way into "100% Creative projects," I'd start eating into the time I need for sleep.

If I discipline myself to spend no more time on each post in the new schedule than I do now, I should have about three days a week available for 'catching up. That's a big if, though: I've tried this sort of thing before.

We'll see how this goes.

Almost-related posts:

• "Lemming Tracks: The Lemming Hits the Big Six-Oh"
  (October 1, 2011)
• "Google's 13th, and Where Did the Month Go?!"
  (September 27, 2011)
• "Lemming Tracks: The Lemming's Back, and Pooped"
  (August 10, 2011)
• "Catholic Marketing Network Trade Show: Second Morning on the Floor"
  A Catholic Citizen in America (August 4, 2011)
• "Lemming Tracks: The Lemming Gets Transparent"
  (April 18, 2011)