It started with the EP getting up early. For some unknown reason, she got up at 5AM, and was ready at 6. She got to school early, and was able to hold the door for everyone coming in. When she got home from school, she told me she wanted to go to school early every day.

I mentioned to her that I used to go to school early every day, and that I used to sit in the library and read Asimov. She asked about Asimov, and I told her about the three laws. I asked her if she could think of any ways that the laws could be bent or broken to make robots go crazy.

So let’s talk about personal development.

Every few months, I get this weird idea. It’s a kind of feeling of inadequacy that forces me to look around at the video games and twitter feeds and ask “What am I doing?”

Not in a derogatory manner, just in a general inventory-of-actions kind of way. Seriously. What am I doing today? What did I do yesterday? What am I planning for tomorrow?

Usually, that happens at a time when I’m doing almost nothing at all, which is why the feeling is generally seen as a bummer. I say, “I’m playing Diablo III for the third time through, and I guess I’ll do that again tomorrow, until I beat it again and start over.”