Sometimes I sit down, determined to make a schedule of when I will go to the gym, when I will blog, when I will finish, well, work on, start my great American novel, and when I will work on my dissertation.  Then the baby wakes up from her 10 minute nap because the swing has run out of battery power and I am forced to shove a handful of stale crackers in my mouth for lunch and then run and tend to Infant Screamerton.

Alas, living the dream leaves me little time for such schedules.  Or the activities I seek to schedule.  Or for putting on clean pants, actually.

But sometimes in the wee hours of morning, I Google things for the heck of it.  Last night I googled “Theology Girl” for fun.  Just, you know, to see if the poor blog even registers any more.  And it does, though it appears there are several other Theology Girl websites now.  There is theologygirl at wordpress, and then a new branch of that, Theology Girls.  And--get this--they blog about theology!  What fool hardiness is this?  People voluntarily do that?  Write about theology?  For fun?  On purpose?

I wonder if anyone of them are writing a dissertation.  My money is on “no.” The single biggest way to want to avoid writing about theology--be graded on it.

What is interesting about the one web site is that it has “Theology Girl Favs” sidebar on it and who should be there but--you guessed it--Josh Groban.  Oh, Josh.  You seduce so many of us theology girls, I suppose.  After 60 year old women, we are your fan base. 

Josh Groban aside, I am still int he All But Dissertation phase.  Or, rather, the All But Time to finish the Dissertation phase.  And I tell people that I’m writing about eternity so obviously it’s going to take one to finish it, but this is running out of street cred.  People eye me a little sadly in the halls.  They cast furtive glances in my direction, avoiding eye contact, lest I rub off a little nongettingdoneness onto them.  And I know it’s my own fault.  But the baby!  She wants!  She needs!  And did I mention the stale crackers!

But it’s my own fault.  I really need to get some motivation to finish.  You don’t need to put on clean pants to finish a doctoral program.  Really, the pursuit is aided by inattention to details like these.

But I will definitely blog more.  Because, like it or not, a Theology Girl am I.  Or at least a Theology Mama.  And I’m up at 3am anyway.  I might as well put my incoherent ramblings out into the ether. Since the ranks are growing as they are.  I need to be a part of the movement.