Skip to main content

Visual Aids

So I've had a bit of writer's block this week. 
I've started two or three blog posts and moved them (possibly forever) to draft status.

I'm feeling uninspired.  Maybe you can help me.  If you want to throw out a topic, I'll research it, talk it out, give you my point of view.  We can discuss.

I don't want to leave you hanging so I thought I would take a cue from one of my favorite Internet pastimes*: Funny Graphs  If you Google this term and look at the images, you will have hours (and I do mean HOURS) of fun at your fingertips.  I mean, these are very important pieces of information.  Every high school math and science student should be able to quantify....

What Sir Mix-A-Lot likes:


 Who loves Mrs. Robinson:


Or the likely composition of rain:


To that end, I thought it might interest you to view a few graphs that document my life.  All data is represented accurately.  I'm sure of it.  Really.  Do you doubt me?

Graph #1: A typical day for Rachel

 Oh, and in case you're wondering what I do with that 4% of my life that is "leisure time":


So there you have it.  This is what happens when I get writers block.  PLEASE! Someone inspire me. I will take your topic suggestions.....NOW.

*note: I had to also look up the word pastime.  It just looks weird.  It is, indeed, spelled correctly and should not be spelled pasttime (which ALSO looks incorrect).  Just sayin'
Labels:

Comments

  1. FaiqaFebruary 1, 2011 at 11:21 PM

    Ummm... I got nothing. I mean, in terms of inspiration. I got plenty from this post.

    ReplyDelete
  2. CaraFebruary 2, 2011 at 8:36 AM

    I LOVE that your leisure time graph is divided into ideal and reality. I started at the top left and thought - WOWZERS, How does Rachel have time to knit and sew her own clothes and tend her organic garden while keeping up with facebook and playing Words with Friends with me? ;)

    ReplyDelete
  3. AvitableFebruary 2, 2011 at 9:25 AM

    I totally spell it "past-time" because I don't like how "pastime" or "pasttime" look.

    You play WWF? I'm on there as Avitable.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Edge of Seventeen

It's that time of year when the blog musings center on my grief journey. Every year, it seems like we are busy with end-of-the-year school activities and the start of summer, planning vacations, and then (kablam)...it's almost July 9.  Grief is funny. Grief is weird. I remember very early after Charlotte died, I watched the movie Rabbit Hole.  There's an amazingly poignant scene where Nicole Kidman's character is talking with another woman who lost a child over 10 years before (played by Dianne Wiest). She talks about grief being like a brick in your pocket. It never goes away. Sometimes you can even forget it's there. But it comes back and makes its presence known from time to time. And (she says) "it's what you have of them."    I probably did not fully realize then what a powerful and true analogy that is. As time goes on, our grief changes. Yet, it is always there on the edge of things. It sits in that pocket and sometimes makes itself known.  This
Post a Comment
Read more

The Stages of Grief: COVID Edition

It's 2020. It's almost Christmas. We're still in the middle of a pandemic. In fact, we are experiencing what appears to be an incredible surge that is exerting tremendous pressure on our healthcare and social service system. The headlines are clear: we're not done with this madness and December 31, 2020 will not magically be the "end of it".  Earlier in the year, our family thought about whether we might be able to travel at this time. We thought that maybe the curve would be flat enough that we could take a few days away from home during the Christmas holidays. We realized that the pandemic would still be happening, but with the right protections and with prolific mask usage, we could get a much-needed change of scenery. During what is now (clearly) a delusional thought process, we booked a stay in Gatlinburg, Tennessee for the week of December 19th. Spoiler alert: we canceled the trip almost two weeks ago.  Canceling this trip was not a tragedy. In fact, I
1 comment
Read more

Bittersweet Sixteen

I think about Charlotte every single day. However, this time of year, I'm flooded with all kinds of memories as we commemorate the anniversary of her birth. This year feels like a bit of a milestone. Sixteen.  If cancer had not taken her life back in 2010, I have a feeling I would be planning a massive birthday celebration this year. 16 always feels like a landmark year in someone's life.  I have been thinking a great deal about the last birthday party we had for Charlotte in 2009. We didn't know it at the time, but we were halfway through her treatment journey. We had been through three major brain surgeries and a few rounds of inpatient chemotherapy. Treatments were not going well. In fact, right after her birthday, we would make the trip to Houston, Texas where we would settle in for about 10 weeks of proton beam radiation treatments and a new customized chemotherapy protocol. This was the unspoken "last chance option" to beat that aggressive brain tumor into
2 comments
Read more