Preparing for the Nonexistant
Now that I’m 24 hours removed from being exhausted (both physically and emotionally), I can essentially make part 2 of last night’s post. As I talked about in my Twitter post, I was going to be using that service as a way to continue to provide daily updates while I was down in Austin. Well, I forgot that WordPress itself can actually be updated by email, so that was an unnecessary effort (although it does have me semi-addicted to Twitter now), and now the entire point is moot since we won’t be going.
This tends to happen with me a bunch; there’s a possible future event that I start (over) preparing for far enough in advance that something changes to make it not happen, and I’m left having made all these unnecessary preparations. It happened last year with baseball playoffs (my apartment transfer at UTD being the conflicting event), and it even happened my senior year when we lost in the first round. It’s just my nature to want to have everything planned out way ahead of time so that I can be prepared, but in cases like this, it can produce a great amount of unneeded work for me.