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Wednesday, December 7th
Dec. 7th, 2011 11:45 amTHE DAILY REPORT
Okay, so... the getting the story done in the morning thing didn't work quite how I'd envisioned it, but it did work. I mean, the story's up. And I finished it this morning instead of spending two hours gradually gaining enough focus to start something. But having my work already laid out and ready to go didn't bypass the fog as much as I'd hoped/expected. It took me twice as long to do as I had thought it would.
The key is that it's done. But I think the lesson here is yes, set a morning task out for myself the night before... but don't count on getting it done in the morning. There's too many variables in terms of how I slept and how foggy my brain is... I may or may not be able to plow through, and the end results may or may not be presentable, and I may or may not be in a frame to judge such things.
So: have a job for the morning, but make sure there's time in the afternoon to fix or finish it if need be. In fact, when possible, avoid setting a task for the morning that needs to be completed that day. Make the morning for stuff that's already started but doesn't need finishing immediately.
For example, tomorrow morning I'm going to work on Dangerous Instrumentality.
Vulgar Money Talk
So, I tried something different with a Paypal button on the bottom of the OT I just put up... I made a direct reference to the fact that I'm going to be buying a new winter coat with the next few payments I get.
Now, I'm not actively freezing to death, and I will have money for a coat in like a week or two at the most just in the ordinary course of things. But there's an outerwear sale at Target I'd like to be able to take advantage of this week.
I could just as easily have picked the dietary supplements I'm running short of that help keep my body and brain in working order, but I figured a coat was less likely to provoke comments from people saying things like "Coats don't actually do anything for coldness, or the FDA would have approved them." and "Have you tried scarves? I used to swear by coats, but then I tried a scarf." and "My sister's on this thing where when you get cold, you wear less, not more. It fools the body's metabolism into thinking it's sunny out."
My idea is just to remind people that I'm not asking for money just as an ego thing... I'm an actual person with actual needs and expenses.
STATE OF THE ME
Doing okay. Wasn't up too late last night, slept pretty well.
PLANS FOR TODAY
Going to continue on from yesterday. Now, one thing I found yesterday was that doing multiple hours in a row of timed sprints basically cranks up my adrenaline/anxiety to ungodly levels. So instead of having like an hour of meditation and then three hours of writing under the gun, it's going to be an hour of doing the 20/10 sprinting and then half an hour of calm reflection and then an hour and then half an hour. It really is sprinting, not distant running. I was pretty fatigued by the end of the day yesterday.
...this is something I decided to do yesterday but I forgot about this morning, and so I did two hours in a row. No wonder I feel slightly burnt out.
Anyway, task list coming up after lunch.
Okay, so... the getting the story done in the morning thing didn't work quite how I'd envisioned it, but it did work. I mean, the story's up. And I finished it this morning instead of spending two hours gradually gaining enough focus to start something. But having my work already laid out and ready to go didn't bypass the fog as much as I'd hoped/expected. It took me twice as long to do as I had thought it would.
The key is that it's done. But I think the lesson here is yes, set a morning task out for myself the night before... but don't count on getting it done in the morning. There's too many variables in terms of how I slept and how foggy my brain is... I may or may not be able to plow through, and the end results may or may not be presentable, and I may or may not be in a frame to judge such things.
So: have a job for the morning, but make sure there's time in the afternoon to fix or finish it if need be. In fact, when possible, avoid setting a task for the morning that needs to be completed that day. Make the morning for stuff that's already started but doesn't need finishing immediately.
For example, tomorrow morning I'm going to work on Dangerous Instrumentality.
Vulgar Money Talk
So, I tried something different with a Paypal button on the bottom of the OT I just put up... I made a direct reference to the fact that I'm going to be buying a new winter coat with the next few payments I get.
Now, I'm not actively freezing to death, and I will have money for a coat in like a week or two at the most just in the ordinary course of things. But there's an outerwear sale at Target I'd like to be able to take advantage of this week.
I could just as easily have picked the dietary supplements I'm running short of that help keep my body and brain in working order, but I figured a coat was less likely to provoke comments from people saying things like "Coats don't actually do anything for coldness, or the FDA would have approved them." and "Have you tried scarves? I used to swear by coats, but then I tried a scarf." and "My sister's on this thing where when you get cold, you wear less, not more. It fools the body's metabolism into thinking it's sunny out."
My idea is just to remind people that I'm not asking for money just as an ego thing... I'm an actual person with actual needs and expenses.
STATE OF THE ME
Doing okay. Wasn't up too late last night, slept pretty well.
PLANS FOR TODAY
Going to continue on from yesterday. Now, one thing I found yesterday was that doing multiple hours in a row of timed sprints basically cranks up my adrenaline/anxiety to ungodly levels. So instead of having like an hour of meditation and then three hours of writing under the gun, it's going to be an hour of doing the 20/10 sprinting and then half an hour of calm reflection and then an hour and then half an hour. It really is sprinting, not distant running. I was pretty fatigued by the end of the day yesterday.
...this is something I decided to do yesterday but I forgot about this morning, and so I did two hours in a row. No wonder I feel slightly burnt out.
Anyway, task list coming up after lunch.