Well, I was right. January has turned out to be a taxing month, and it's taking a visible toll on my blog. I don't feel like I'm writing particularly well these days. Words just don't seem to flow nicely. I want to keep blogging anyway because I think the exercise will help loosen up the works, but on the other hand, I don't want to litter my blog with semi-literate crap. As it is I think I've been overdoing it with the light posts and have not posted enough meaty, thoughtful posts in recent weeks. It is much harder to do them, although not because I don't have anything to say. I actually have several ideas for serious posts, but I find they require more attention than I'm able to give them. The more serious the subject, the more important it is that I not write sloppily, and it's just been hard to find enough time to tackle such a subject properly. Or at least with enough time to edit it so I can make sure that I don't post something I regret. Especially when the words haven't been coming out smoothly I find myself much more nervous about blogging poorly. Which just makes me more tense so it's more difficult to write. So I don't write, and it makes me more tense…
It is one of the paradoxes of law school, that the busier I am the more I need to make time to write, even if it is at the expense of something else. When I don't do it, the mental gears start to seize up and it's hard to get through my other work. Blogging helps keep my brain working smoothly, and that's important for everything I need to do.