Tuesday, May 15th
May. 15th, 2012 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinThe Daily Report
I had a bit of a realization this morning, just before I got up... even though I've achieved my goal of not having my visit here interrupt the regular flow of decent quality, on-schedule Tales of MU updates, I've been feeling like I need to do more, like I should be getting in eight hour work days and having more two and three thousand word days than one thousand word days. (Sidenote: yesterday was a thousand word day. Never did an EOD report.)
But I didn't spend a couple hundred dollars crossing the country so I could do experiments in productivity. When I live in Hagerstown I'm going to need to be able to manage a regular workday, but this isn't practice for when I live here... for one thing, our living situation will be different when I do (I'll have more time and space to myself in the ordinary course of things) and for another my time with Jack won't be as rare or as expensive then.
This trip has been a model of productivity and discipline compared to my previous trips here, and that's all it needs to be. I don't need to figure out how to do everything here.
(And don't worry, I haven't been shutting Jack out or shutting myself up in another room for the past week and a half before I figured this out... we've been having plenty of fun. But I have felt slightly guilty about things like accompanying Jack on his errands during the day, as I did yesterday, and worrying about if I'll need to start closeting myself away more.)
State of the Me
After a few nights of decent sleep, last night was a poor sleep one. Woke up in the middle of the night as usual, but then never did quite get back to sleep until well after the sun was up.
Dreams From Last Night
Fairly harrowing one about the separation from my cat that these visits entail, though the details have now escaped me.
Plans For Today
I have Fantasy in Miniature back online and it is a date divisible by three, so I suppose I'll update it. I'm thinking, though, that in the long term I should ditch the calendar date basis for it and make it every 3 days, in much the same way I did with Tales of MU... in its case, that actually wouldn't be sacrificing anything because I wasn't adjusting the schedule to fit more updates in a month. Though I'm not sure how well I'd do juggling two "count the day" cycles. It might be easier to keep one by the calendar.
And of course I'm going to continue to observe the "do at least 500 words of Tales of MU" rule. Today is day 2 of the cycle
I had a bit of a realization this morning, just before I got up... even though I've achieved my goal of not having my visit here interrupt the regular flow of decent quality, on-schedule Tales of MU updates, I've been feeling like I need to do more, like I should be getting in eight hour work days and having more two and three thousand word days than one thousand word days. (Sidenote: yesterday was a thousand word day. Never did an EOD report.)
But I didn't spend a couple hundred dollars crossing the country so I could do experiments in productivity. When I live in Hagerstown I'm going to need to be able to manage a regular workday, but this isn't practice for when I live here... for one thing, our living situation will be different when I do (I'll have more time and space to myself in the ordinary course of things) and for another my time with Jack won't be as rare or as expensive then.
This trip has been a model of productivity and discipline compared to my previous trips here, and that's all it needs to be. I don't need to figure out how to do everything here.
(And don't worry, I haven't been shutting Jack out or shutting myself up in another room for the past week and a half before I figured this out... we've been having plenty of fun. But I have felt slightly guilty about things like accompanying Jack on his errands during the day, as I did yesterday, and worrying about if I'll need to start closeting myself away more.)
State of the Me
After a few nights of decent sleep, last night was a poor sleep one. Woke up in the middle of the night as usual, but then never did quite get back to sleep until well after the sun was up.
Dreams From Last Night
Fairly harrowing one about the separation from my cat that these visits entail, though the details have now escaped me.
Plans For Today
I have Fantasy in Miniature back online and it is a date divisible by three, so I suppose I'll update it. I'm thinking, though, that in the long term I should ditch the calendar date basis for it and make it every 3 days, in much the same way I did with Tales of MU... in its case, that actually wouldn't be sacrificing anything because I wasn't adjusting the schedule to fit more updates in a month. Though I'm not sure how well I'd do juggling two "count the day" cycles. It might be easier to keep one by the calendar.
And of course I'm going to continue to observe the "do at least 500 words of Tales of MU" rule. Today is day 2 of the cycle