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Sep. 3rd, 2012 11:04 amI've been terrifyingly efficient this morning. This worries me. I'm more comfortable with fallibility than with terrifying efficiency when applied to myself.
This may possibly be due to me waking up at 4 am by mistake and doing some work, then waking up again at a more normal hour and doing some more work, then finally (now) having my first coffee and finally actually being awake and seeing a whole day's work accomplished. I've already done all my doctoral work for the day, for instance. I can't do any more until I hear from my supervisor, in fact, and it's not even 9 am in Perth.
I caught up on all my non-BiblioBuffet articles over the weekend. As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong, please!) I owe no articles to anyone not BiblioBuffet. That means I have four to do this week, in a perfect world, for the next two months are obviously going to be quite curiously busy. I've been saying this for two months - that I need to write ahead and clear the decks - but life keeps intervening and I meet my schedules, but never pull ahead. It's worked out fine so far, because publishers are being really slack about submitting Aurealis books this year and I haven't all that reading to do yet. When it comes, though, I will obviously have to read 5-6 books a day (unless no-one is publishing YA spec fic this year, which I rather doubt) and that will mean having no other work (or not much other work) on my desk.
Let me detour and remind everyone who needs reminding (which is a few of my blog readers): if the judges in any Aurealis category read most of the book at the same time, then those books will run together in their minds if said books are similar to other books. If a book is good (even wonderful) but strictly typical, then it has a better chance of being noticed if the nominations are made early ie if the judge doesn't read ten other books like it in the same week and if we have more time to linger over the reading. By 'early' I mean NOW.
By this time last year I had read 25 more books and the postie was delivering them at a mad rate. I haven't said 'hi' to my nice postie for two weeks. I bet he's missing me.
End of detour and back to work. Pre-Raphs, as I foreshadowed yesterday, but not, I think, Pre-Raphs as I've always assumed. And then more spec fic and maybe another interview. I'm not getting many review books right now, either, so I have my path clearly laid out in terms of articles, rather than books stacked up and demanding attention and threatening to topple if I don't write about them. This suits me just fine right now. It means I'm busy, but not impossibly so. I don't want to be terrifyingly efficient through working half asleep again this week, though, for I have teaching and one cannot teach well when half asleep. Or rather, I can't. I admire those who can.
And, just in case you didn't notice, today I'm wittering. This possibly means I have bills to pay.
This may possibly be due to me waking up at 4 am by mistake and doing some work, then waking up again at a more normal hour and doing some more work, then finally (now) having my first coffee and finally actually being awake and seeing a whole day's work accomplished. I've already done all my doctoral work for the day, for instance. I can't do any more until I hear from my supervisor, in fact, and it's not even 9 am in Perth.
I caught up on all my non-BiblioBuffet articles over the weekend. As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong, please!) I owe no articles to anyone not BiblioBuffet. That means I have four to do this week, in a perfect world, for the next two months are obviously going to be quite curiously busy. I've been saying this for two months - that I need to write ahead and clear the decks - but life keeps intervening and I meet my schedules, but never pull ahead. It's worked out fine so far, because publishers are being really slack about submitting Aurealis books this year and I haven't all that reading to do yet. When it comes, though, I will obviously have to read 5-6 books a day (unless no-one is publishing YA spec fic this year, which I rather doubt) and that will mean having no other work (or not much other work) on my desk.
Let me detour and remind everyone who needs reminding (which is a few of my blog readers): if the judges in any Aurealis category read most of the book at the same time, then those books will run together in their minds if said books are similar to other books. If a book is good (even wonderful) but strictly typical, then it has a better chance of being noticed if the nominations are made early ie if the judge doesn't read ten other books like it in the same week and if we have more time to linger over the reading. By 'early' I mean NOW.
By this time last year I had read 25 more books and the postie was delivering them at a mad rate. I haven't said 'hi' to my nice postie for two weeks. I bet he's missing me.
End of detour and back to work. Pre-Raphs, as I foreshadowed yesterday, but not, I think, Pre-Raphs as I've always assumed. And then more spec fic and maybe another interview. I'm not getting many review books right now, either, so I have my path clearly laid out in terms of articles, rather than books stacked up and demanding attention and threatening to topple if I don't write about them. This suits me just fine right now. It means I'm busy, but not impossibly so. I don't want to be terrifyingly efficient through working half asleep again this week, though, for I have teaching and one cannot teach well when half asleep. Or rather, I can't. I admire those who can.
And, just in case you didn't notice, today I'm wittering. This possibly means I have bills to pay.