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Jan. 16th, 2011 02:48 pmYou might want to check out Horrorscope. I said I needed to understand a wider range of books at a deeper level - this is one of the ways I'm going about it.
Jan. 16th, 2011
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Jan. 16th, 2011 10:58 pmFor about three hours this afternoon I did amazing amounts of work. If I could do just one more hour of amazing work, I would be able to say "hah!" at the hot weather. Three more hours would be even better, because I'm halfway through four different things and it would be rather nice to finish them off. Alas, however, the heat has finished me off.
I plan to do my one more hour, at least. I plan to deceive my body into thinking that it's cool by sipping slowly on iced strawberry liqueur and doing that hour of work the whole while. At the end of this, I shall at least have done my daily minimum (achievement!) and I shall be so tipsy that I'll have a very good chance of getting some sleep (double achievement!).
My yesterday's achievement was getting the complete Conflux cookbook off to the editor on time.
I'm pretty sure I didn't achieve anything at all the day before yesterday.
Friends have started coming home from their summer break. Their first question is "What did you do on your holiday?" At this stage, I am accepting suggestions for answers to this question because "I finished a very draft chapter of my dissertation, some novel, a bunch of research, a whole cookbook, some articles, some book reviews, and I filled in innumerable forms" is apparently not acceptable. Neither, apparently, is "I didn't know I was on holiday."
I don't find it depressing that I don't take holiday in summer. I just find it difficult when everyone around me assumes that I do, even when I never have. I have a superhero dual existence (and also, I watched Smallville tonight). I shall assume a secret identity and wear a cape next year when I work through summer and see if that helps my friends get their head around my December and January.
I would take holiday if I saw a point in it. Being on holiday and alone at home, though, is a mug's game. I've had a thoroughly enjoyable summer and done much useful stuff will will stand me in good stead throughout the year. And I have my leave waiting for me to take when there are things I want to do and people I want to be with.
I just need an acceptable way of answering that question.
I plan to do my one more hour, at least. I plan to deceive my body into thinking that it's cool by sipping slowly on iced strawberry liqueur and doing that hour of work the whole while. At the end of this, I shall at least have done my daily minimum (achievement!) and I shall be so tipsy that I'll have a very good chance of getting some sleep (double achievement!).
My yesterday's achievement was getting the complete Conflux cookbook off to the editor on time.
I'm pretty sure I didn't achieve anything at all the day before yesterday.
Friends have started coming home from their summer break. Their first question is "What did you do on your holiday?" At this stage, I am accepting suggestions for answers to this question because "I finished a very draft chapter of my dissertation, some novel, a bunch of research, a whole cookbook, some articles, some book reviews, and I filled in innumerable forms" is apparently not acceptable. Neither, apparently, is "I didn't know I was on holiday."
I don't find it depressing that I don't take holiday in summer. I just find it difficult when everyone around me assumes that I do, even when I never have. I have a superhero dual existence (and also, I watched Smallville tonight). I shall assume a secret identity and wear a cape next year when I work through summer and see if that helps my friends get their head around my December and January.
I would take holiday if I saw a point in it. Being on holiday and alone at home, though, is a mug's game. I've had a thoroughly enjoyable summer and done much useful stuff will will stand me in good stead throughout the year. And I have my leave waiting for me to take when there are things I want to do and people I want to be with.
I just need an acceptable way of answering that question.