The crapshot bracket really helped me get through a stressful spring semester (it helps having daily thing to look forward to when you have ~1-3 papers due each week), now what am I gonna do with my life?

Does it help if I’m asking myself the same thing?

In all seriousness, for a number of reasons I don’t care to get into, this summer has been very stressful and exhausting for me, and this project has been my anchor throughout that. I enjoyed this because I had been wanting to do some sort of big project for a long time, but always failed because it consistently felt like a huge undertaking. However, despite the scope of this bracket, it never did that to me. I’d spend, on average, 15 minutes a day on it. That’s it. However, those were 15 minutes I’d spend (nearly) every day on it, no matter what, mentally rain or shine. The feeling that I couldn’t just put it off helped me pierce through procrastination and executive dysfunction and get something done.

And as it turns out, when you spend 15 minutes a day doing something small for seven months, you end up with a great big pile of something small. I’m proud of that, and it makes me think I could do something else in the same light. What is that something though? I don’t know yet. And before any of you get your hopes up, it won’t be another bracket, it very likely won’t be LRR-related, and it might not even be public. But it’ll be something. I like that.

Unfortunately, I can’t help you have something else to look forward to, but I can wish you luck.