How to tread water in the desert

Thank God for the Internet....otherwise how would I spend my days? Working? Pshah! To be honest, things are picking up and I spend only around 80% of my day now passing the time, with things expected to pick up even more as we reach production. But its hard to stay focused when you don't have anything to do. Yesterday myself and some of the girls in the office made South Park Characters...this is one created by Kate Poss depicting me moments after loosing it due to boredom
I'm trying to educate myself a little while I have spare time. I've been reading the leaflet handouts from Josh's producer class at UT. One of the first things it said was a list of important personality traits for a producer:
Patient
Tenacious
Dedicated
Flexible
Calm
Optimistic
Hard-Working
Self-Confident
Generous
Thorough
Detail Oriented
Oh Dear, I thought, I have a lot of work to do, as I possess maybe two of these traits consistently and all of them some of the time, except maybe 'calm'...or 'patient'. What better place to work on these than West Texas, where there's nothing much to do but self improve. I have been a little disappointed with myself for not writing in this blog more often. I think of posts and then forget about them before I have a chance to sit down and write it out. Topics include such far ranging items as politics & religion, immigration reform, mp3 players, gasoline conservation and the economy, living on a budget, and the ideas suggested by the title of this blog which primarily refer to conscientious living or being aware of our place and duties on this earth and within this society.
I figured it out! Often I have to create constructs in order for me to be motivated to complete certain tasks. As I have topics I know I want to write about, I'll create mini posts all at once, and then expand on the posts as I feel like it, finally completing and then posting them.
Now I'm setting a goal of having this initial grouping fleshed out by the end of May. With time to spare perhaps.
While I'm at it, I'd like to set a goal of not checking my email 45 times a day (if not more). I'm up to 7 times already today, and its only 10:22 am.