Even More About Me

(Like I didn't tell you enough last time)

However, this is partially triggered by my last blog entry, so please bear with me. As you may have guessed from post Ia. (but I didn't actually say outright), I am a perfectionist. As I noted below, this means that I can accept failure, but I will never--NEVER--be happy with it. Ever. I can remain embarrassed by my failures years after they occur. It's rather sad. In addition, I spend far too much time on getting every little thing just right. (For proof, just look at this blog. I spent hours customizing the design where others would be satisfied with minutes--even going so far as to edit the CSS manually--and I'm still not done. That's how crazy I am.)

The point behind this, though, is to explain what happened between CWE #6 and CWE #7. Simply put, due to my perfectionistic bent I spent far too much time on editing CWE #6 (most of it invisibly, before writing, or by erasing and rewriting the phrase I put before). If I recall, I also spent a lot of the time on customizing the blog design.... The result: I ended up writing one assignment in the time of two, and having to "make up" CWE #7 in class the next day (on paper, hence the delay in its appearance on the blog). This is especially problematic in light of the fact that WE's are supposed, by design, to be short, unconstrained, unedited outpourings of writing, not longish, carefully composed, and heavily edited pieces. Yet another thing I could be working on to improve, I suppose.

I'll try. I'll really try. I'll force myself to work over more reasonable (i.e. shorter) time periods. But I have a sinking feeling it'll be as hard as chopping down the (forest (of (parentheses)))...

P.S. With all those parentheses, I should just write my exercises directly in LISP.... Hey! That sounds like an intriguing idea for a WE...