I didn’t realize that it had been almost two weeks since my last post. So … I made it to almost three weeks of posting every weekday. I think that’s a new personal record, and I’m not going to sweat the fact that I stopped posting. Basically I just wanted to put this here because [...]
And then some days are super productive
January 17th, 2012 · No Comments · stuff
The to-do list I made at 5:30 this morning (1. Funny how a four-month-old kitten burrowing under the covers to attack one’s bare feet works just as well as a kettle of cold water getting dumping over one’s head in terms of efficient wake-up methods; 2. Funny also how despite several so-called productivity apps on [...]
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Nothing productive happens after 7:00 pm
January 16th, 2012 · No Comments · stuff
Someone called me a “real writer” today, and not as a joke! I haven’t felt like a writer in a while, though — writers write, and I haven’t really been doing that, except for here, which … doesn’t count for some reason? OK, that’s crazy talk. And then I don’t have time to write a [...]
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I am full and sleepy and not ready for writing.
January 13th, 2012 · No Comments · writing
Before I left to meet a friend for lunch I started writing today’s post, but finishing it means going down a not very pleasant part of memory lane and I’m not emotionally there yet. I want to write it, I feel like it will be good for me to write it, but it’s 4:30 and [...]
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Today’s to-do list
January 12th, 2012 · No Comments · stuff, television
1. Finish review book 2. Start drafting review 3. Tidy up in kitchen 4. Tidy up in bathroom 5. Start organizing office [bah...this can wait...] 6. Watch new Downton Abbey episodes And speaking of Downton Abbey, Sir Richard is also Father Octavian from those second Weeping Angel episodes of Doctor Who: And apparently the actor, [...]
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What makes me happy: something new
January 11th, 2012 · No Comments · projects
Y’know, I read The Happiness Project a couple years ago (I wrote about that here) and decided then that I was going to implement a lot of what Gretchen Rubin talks about, but then for whatever reason or group of reasons I never really did to any great extent. It might have been because I [...]
Learning to Code
January 10th, 2012 · No Comments · writing
I joined Code Year 2012 yesterday. Not (necessarily) in an effort to improve myself, by which I mean my chances at finding full-time or more freelance employment, but primarily because my love for learning new things has been somewhat reclusive of late, unwilling to take chances or risks for fear of … something. Failure, probably. [...]
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Lazy weekend
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments · hug all the cats, knitting
I’ll be honest: I thought about blogging through the weekend. I did. I thought about it for about ten seconds. Five seconds were devoted to “you should, you should write every day” and five seconds were spent persuading myself that I should take weekends off because weekends mean something to me now. (Not every week, [...]
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Here’s a thing that happened yesterday
January 6th, 2012 · No Comments · city life
The best part of my job (which is part-time, as I feel compelled to point out every time I mention it) is that it is close enough to walk there, which saves money on subway fare and provides the exercise I desperately need (so another reason I’m less than satisfied with this part-time thing is [...]
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