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tadorna at 11:53pm on 31/10/2007 under books, knitting, lists, nano, organisation, procrastination, work
tadorna at 11:53pm on 31/10/2007 under books, knitting, lists, nano, organisation, procrastination, workIt occurs to me that I might need to change the way I organise my life. Organising it, for example, might be a start.
Things I am currently achieving: Getting out of bed. Reading flist. Going to work and staying at my desk, awake, till 5pm, attempting to fit lunch in there at some point. Getting home again. Feeding myself. Occasionally getting to bed before midnight.
Other activities include signing up to things, starting things, buying things which I sometimes get around to taking out of the packaging. I constantly have 50 tabs open in Firefox, all of which are to be 'taken care of' at some mythical later date. I used to make endless lists, but now I can't even seem to find the time to do that. Then there's this BookMooch thing. I have requested eight books to be sent to me. Why, exactly? Why? From here, I can see at least four books I'm 'reading'. I've been 'reading' the same half a dozen books for months on end. Let's not even talk about the 'to read' pile! In return for the books I apparently felt need to be to added to this pile, I tonight wrapped up six of my own books to send to people I don't know in different parts of the world, and then realised I'd forgotten to write the return address on them and furthermore had written the recipient's address in such huge writing there was no room left for all the other things that you have to stick on parcels. So I just sat and stared at them for a while and then put them carefully in a pile and went on Ravelry, where I stared at other people's yarn I will never buy and other people's patterns I will never knit. Now it is 11.43, and I should be asleep, but I'm not, I'm typing this. What an evening I've had!
NaNo starts tomorrow. Since I started my new (and, yes, much better) job I haven't written more than about, ooh, a paragraph. Staring vacantly at half a television programme and eating half a large bar of Cadbury's Wholenut takes up all my energy. In fact, I seem to do lots of half things (or perhaps more accurately quarters and thirds) and it all adds up to a whole lot o' nothing.
Folks... I just can't help feeling I'm not existing at the highest possible level here.
Things I am currently achieving: Getting out of bed. Reading flist. Going to work and staying at my desk, awake, till 5pm, attempting to fit lunch in there at some point. Getting home again. Feeding myself. Occasionally getting to bed before midnight.
Other activities include signing up to things, starting things, buying things which I sometimes get around to taking out of the packaging. I constantly have 50 tabs open in Firefox, all of which are to be 'taken care of' at some mythical later date. I used to make endless lists, but now I can't even seem to find the time to do that. Then there's this BookMooch thing. I have requested eight books to be sent to me. Why, exactly? Why? From here, I can see at least four books I'm 'reading'. I've been 'reading' the same half a dozen books for months on end. Let's not even talk about the 'to read' pile! In return for the books I apparently felt need to be to added to this pile, I tonight wrapped up six of my own books to send to people I don't know in different parts of the world, and then realised I'd forgotten to write the return address on them and furthermore had written the recipient's address in such huge writing there was no room left for all the other things that you have to stick on parcels. So I just sat and stared at them for a while and then put them carefully in a pile and went on Ravelry, where I stared at other people's yarn I will never buy and other people's patterns I will never knit. Now it is 11.43, and I should be asleep, but I'm not, I'm typing this. What an evening I've had!
NaNo starts tomorrow. Since I started my new (and, yes, much better) job I haven't written more than about, ooh, a paragraph. Staring vacantly at half a television programme and eating half a large bar of Cadbury's Wholenut takes up all my energy. In fact, I seem to do lots of half things (or perhaps more accurately quarters and thirds) and it all adds up to a whole lot o' nothing.
Folks... I just can't help feeling I'm not existing at the highest possible level here.
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See, you are working and eating, that is a start. What else are you doing RIGHT? (Make a list if you like, unless you are trying to make less lists)
Also, nothing you have mentioned is actually bad unless you stop eating and working, that would be dangerous.
I read 4 books at a time, I start them and then forget them and have to pay big library fines!!
There is a danger of beating yourself up for not being super-efficient when you don't need to be.
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I just need to get a slightly better balance, I think.
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I think it all depends on whether you are actually bothered by all this. If you aren't, then don't worry about it. If you are, then you may have to work out what you want to do to make yourself not feel that way.
Also, winter is settling in and I think many people get a bit hibernatory at this point. :)
Hi! Welcome to Jaq in the morrnings, where she is entirely incapable of sentient thought and just rambles on incoherently!
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Well, I was being a bit flippant there. I don't suppose I'd really want to exist at the highest possible level, it'd probably be awful!
I'm sort of bothered, not in that I'm unhappy or anything, just that I know I have a tendency for excessive vegetative behaviour, a bit of which is fine, but I take it too far and it's not good for me. And I'd like to be able to get one or two things done the odd evening, otherwise, you know... I'll feel bad when I get to the pearly gates. God will say, 'So, Julia, what did you achieve in the evenings?', and I'll have to say, 'I watched Selling Houses Abroad and ate five million packets of Kettle Chips, and also I've seen every episode of Friends a minimum of twenty-five times.'
[time passes]
Ok, I wrote that several hours ago and no longer know what I was wittering about. Anyway, I think it's quite efficient of me to be replying to my comments at work, don't you? :)
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I dunno. I tend to think that thinking about this stuff is half the battle and that it seems to be a phase you are going through [which sounds horrible now I have typed it but you will know how I mean it. I hope!] which may be linked to living alone at the moment. I think it's harder to get the momentum to do stuff when you live alone as there isn't someone else about to prod you into action.
I should probably point out that I am typing this as I lounge in bed at twenty to seven in the evening which may or may not say something about my own capacity for not doing stuff. ;)
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Sometimes I think it would be more efficient to go to bed as soon as you get home. I certainly feel that when one gets in the door and takes off one's coat, one should go the whole hog and get changed into one's pyjamas. Saves doing it later!
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But yes! *thinks positively* :)
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*They have to be vertically propped because one of them is a library book*1, and if they were stacked horizontally, my little black and white kitty of the claws would jump on top of it and give himself a manicure.
*1The library book is "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. It was hailed as a creepy thriller, "long but beautifully structured." In reality? BORING! I guess I should skip to the end or something because I owe at least $8 US in late fees. :(
So to sum up, I'm definitely moving those books!
♥ you, shel.
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Funnily enough, The Historian is one of the books to be sent (to someone in Philadelphia) when I actually get round to it. I thought it was ok, but it did go on a bit. I quite liked all the descriptions of food and cities and so on, but the plot was kind of interminable...
I also think if you're really not enjoying a book and you've read quite a bit of it, you should probably just give up on it and find something more ot your tastes. Otherwise you're just slogging on for no real reason.
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Do it! I am! Whee.
Also, we were all asked to go on 'promotional visits' to foundation degree courses in the region and guess what town I cunningly signed up for? So! We can moot very soon! And on company time! I may even try to claim expenses!!
And I'll take my laptop and we can do nanoing together!
*swoons with excitement*
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Oh dear - I haven't written any nano at all yet!
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