The other day I told a guy I was working with: "The only thing stopping me from being an assassin is my terrible sense of direction."*

The only thing keeping me from world domination is my inability to get myself started. Not in an ADD, Katie-you-need-medication way, because I'm already on medication for that and it is a beautiful, glorious thing. Just a personality trait. I am absolutely horrible at motivating myself.

This is roundabout excuse-filled explanation for why 'History Weighs In' is going nowhere fast.

And I don't know what to do about it. There's enough going on in my life - complete and utter chaos at work, an upcoming international trip, possibly moving in with not_as_it_is sometime this summer, and, of course, the never-ending joys of mental illness - that I'm legitimately busy. But as Lifehacker points out, we can always make time for things if they're enough of a priority. And History Weighs In just isn't enough of a priority for me. Energy is an even more precious resource than time for me, and there's nothing in my life right now that I'd be willing to abandon to make the energy for this project.

But I don't want to dump it. The 2012 election does seem like the perfect time for such a project. And I hate being a quitter. It's an aspect of my personality I haven't made my peace with yet.

The point of this post? Full disclosure, I guess. I've been feeling really guilty about not putting any work into HWI, and like the good ex-Catholic I am, I figured confession would be good for the soul.

So yeah, I don't know. Maybe things'll calm down and I'll be hit with "DO ALL THE THINGS!" and start getting things done. Probably it won't.


Hyperbole and a Half is always relevant.

Excuse me while I go eat dinner, watch DS9, and continue to ignore the many other non-HWI things that I've also been ignoring.



*Watch the series Murder She Solved, episode "A Deadly Turn." It'll make sense.