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Sep. 18th, 2011 10:50 amI have way too much to do today. I've made my list, though, and will get as far as I can before the Conflux meeting, but I'm not so hopeful.
The trouble is the time of year. It's always impossible this time of year. Other peoples' deadlines don't allow for Jewish New year and Conflux. People keep telling me that it will suit them nicely if I give something a half day early or if I hurry with something else. For me, though, right now, it's a matter of getting everything done by Wednesday afternoon. That means *everything* and that means that things have to be done in the time that will best work, not the time that will be marginally easier for someone else.
I'm telling this to myself, you realise. I need convincing. Most years I say "If it will suit you at lunchtime, I'll do it by then." Every year I do this and get holiday, I don't actually get holiday, because all the unfinished work has to go with me. The only piece of work going with me this year is the medieval masculinities thing and that's because I'm taking a half day off during my holiday to do a seminar. My time in Melbourne has been very carefully arranged to contain many spaces with friends that cannot possibly, possibly contain work.
This means that I write my 3,000 words and enter my edits for 100 pages of text this morning, because that's when it will get done most efficiently, because I was dreaming of the words and so they write far more straightforwardly than if I leave them until the atmosphere is shredded by the intervention of my daily life. The 100 pages are related to the 3,000 and can be done alongside. Conflux stuff gets done straight after the Conflux meeting. Reviews get written this evening, in small bursts.
My phrases of the day are "resist much pressure" and "drink much tea." And now, only 2,000 words before lunch! Yay!!
The trouble is the time of year. It's always impossible this time of year. Other peoples' deadlines don't allow for Jewish New year and Conflux. People keep telling me that it will suit them nicely if I give something a half day early or if I hurry with something else. For me, though, right now, it's a matter of getting everything done by Wednesday afternoon. That means *everything* and that means that things have to be done in the time that will best work, not the time that will be marginally easier for someone else.
I'm telling this to myself, you realise. I need convincing. Most years I say "If it will suit you at lunchtime, I'll do it by then." Every year I do this and get holiday, I don't actually get holiday, because all the unfinished work has to go with me. The only piece of work going with me this year is the medieval masculinities thing and that's because I'm taking a half day off during my holiday to do a seminar. My time in Melbourne has been very carefully arranged to contain many spaces with friends that cannot possibly, possibly contain work.
This means that I write my 3,000 words and enter my edits for 100 pages of text this morning, because that's when it will get done most efficiently, because I was dreaming of the words and so they write far more straightforwardly than if I leave them until the atmosphere is shredded by the intervention of my daily life. The 100 pages are related to the 3,000 and can be done alongside. Conflux stuff gets done straight after the Conflux meeting. Reviews get written this evening, in small bursts.
My phrases of the day are "resist much pressure" and "drink much tea." And now, only 2,000 words before lunch! Yay!!