The Beauty of Winging It
There's something to be said about spontaneity. Take the title of this blog, for instance. In class tonight, we were asked to go onto Blogger and create our student blogs. I made a conscious effort to not overthink anything as I went through the Blogger steps. When I had to enter a title, the first thing that came to mind was "Winging It."
Driving home after class, I thought about "Winging It" as both an idiom and a blog. I like the expression, but what does it mean to me? Why had it surfaced? In regards to a blog, what could I do with it? This is what I came up with:
- This blog has wings.
- It may be about birds.
- It may be about personal flights.
- It may be about being on-the-spot and having to wing it.
- It may include a Jazz Chant (TESOL Joke)
Or it may do none of the above. The beauty of "winging it" is that you don't have a concrete plan. You flap your wings and take off without knowing where the next landing will be.
When I used email for the first time, in 1993, I used the dos system to email. My husband forced me to get an email account. And I said who am I going to be emailing with? No one has this thing. And he said: This is the next big thing. This is going to simplify your life! (more on this later). Late in 1993, I decided to email a professor of mine who was not that eloquent in person. To my surprise, his email was long with detailed information and extremely helpful. At that point, I said to myself, this has value. There are people who are better at responding through email than face-to-face. (Eventually, this topic became my area of research.)
ReplyDeleteBut my husband was wrong on one account: Email and technology did not come to simplify my life. Now, my life is ruled by my phone. To the point that my daughter says: Drop the phone to sleep! Isn't this sad? Two weeks ago, I decided to delete candy crash from my cell. I had become addicted to it. I don't drink, smoke, or gamble. But candy crash became an addiction. So now it's out! OK, on to grading!
Candy crash was SO ADDICTIVE!!! My friends told me to play this game, so I downloaded it. Almost instantly, I got addicted to it. I even set a alarm clock to remind myself that the 24 hour quest is ready. That was actually when I realised that I should no longer keep this game in my cell phone.
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