Today in school I waxed poetic about how folks need to get up and do something, anything. Just care about something enough that they go and learn something and then do something they've never done before. I railed against the idea that it's alright to just sit at home and watch TV during break because at the very least there were seventy hours of time that they wouldn't be in school normally and they should do something with that time. So I'm going to.
I have plans with a truly amazing woman on New Year's Eve which I am terrifically excited about but prior to that I figured out what I will do. I get off of work on Wednesday, December 24th. After seeing both the folks on the 25th I'm hopping in my car and heading south. This isn't just a road trip for the sake of road tripping, there are several very specific things I intend to accomplish.
1. I will be writing a book. Not the great American novel, a Choose Your Own Adventure book for my students to read that has them in it. 140 pages.
2. I will be writing ten songs. I have no idea what ten songs yet. I haven't written them although I have some ideas. In addition, they will be better than anything I have recorded before (whether that is any real task is debatable).
3. I will be driving south in order to hit 70 degree weather - if only for a day since I will be bringing my bike and I would love to take a nice long bike ride outside without dressing like a tool for it and being incredibly uncomfortable.
Although I am sad that I won't see my students for such an extended period of time I'm excited to do something new, something exciting, and something funny. I hope that each and every one of you who has time off takes a few minutes to learn something, fix something, change something, or just do something meaningful.
