Back from Boston and breaking the blog

Okay, so here is the Break Blog. This blog is meant to help motivate me, because here's the deal:

Last summer, I went on the Carleton English program to Ireland. We traveled around the West, read Ulysses in Dublin, met Seamus Heaney, sauteed a lot of vegetables, and very much more. But because Carleton has that strange rule that you can only attend 12 terms during your four years there, all of us on the Ireland program have to take a term off sometime this year. So I'm taking off the winter term, during which I'll be hanging at home and visiting Carleton as much as I can.

I really want to be productive during my super-long old break, and I've got lots of projects I want to embark on that I've been wanting to for ages, just haven't had the time. Now is my chance.

But I realize this self-motivating business is harder than I'd like it to be. So I'm blogging my break, posting my projects, and hoping this will somehow motivate me to keep up the pace! Mostly though, this blog will do nothing if you guys don't read it and squabble when I don't post! Because no post possibly pertains poor productivity!

Thank you all so much!

love, Jimmy

ps: This picture is the Picture of the Day from December 19, 2008. I just got home from Boston this afternoon and came home to find the Christmas lights set up again. They made me think of this picture. : )