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I'm still trying to treat this as an exercise with some kind of a point to it, so for this one I'm kind of making myself a meta-task list for my life. These are things that I don't do but I need to. I could put more things on here than 7 ("Take care of myself.","Learn to save money."... though I've made some pretty good strides in both of those), so I'm limiting it to things that I both need to get on in the short term and that can be accomplished (or improved) in the short term.
1. The non-writing parts of my work.
This is another one of those "I could do all seven as examples" things. Doesn't matter if they're easy or even fun... filling in character descriptions for the existing character tags has taken me longer in calendar terms than I expected because I'm not doing it every day.
2. Updating my reminder/phone schedule for my new life and new phone.
A lot of the things that I'm neglecting come down to this: my phone isn't reminding me what day it is and what I need to get done. Getting on that is the first thing I'm going to do when I finish this post, I've decided. I'll never keep up Fantasy In Miniature if I don't receive a reminder.
3. Finishing unpacking/de-cluttering/putting my room together.
Despite my grand plans, my loft basically looks the same as it did when I first moved in. No, it looks the same as it did after I moved in and then I furiously dug through boxes and things to find the stuff I needed for the trips I took to Tennessee, Florida, Maryland, and Wisconsin in the two months that followed my move in. The problem is that by the time I was "home" at the dollhouse for any length of time in a row, it was too hot to do anything physical in the upstairs, and then inertia set in.
I'll have to get on this after I go back next week, before it gets too warm. Though this year I should be able to keep the window A/C unit in my own window upstairs, instead of putting it in the window by the stairs where any cold air has to climb to reach me... this was a compromise to try to cool off both my room and our (now gone) other housemate's room, but most of the cold air was just trapped under the stairs. I expect that moving the A/C will make a difference in both livability, and our electric bill.
4. Send out the confirmations to the folks who have bought AA editions since last Friday.
This could go on under 1 but I'm making it its own item so I can make sure it gets done. And also do the corresponding spreadsheet and templating work that will allow me to fulfill the orders when the book launches. Yeah, it's gone a week and I haven't done this. It's a lot of copying and pasting, and I thought I'd brought my USB mouse with me but apparently I didn't. I have one now.
5. Letting people know when I'm having a good time.
This isn't so much "sloth" but it is something I need to remember to do. Apparently it's very hard for people to tell when I'm enjoying myself. I always feel like it should be obvious when I'm having a really good time because I feel so good I think it must show, but apparently it doesn't. Also I'm capable of feeling crushing social anxiety and/or terror at the same time as I'm enjoying myself, and apparently those things show better than the enjoyment.
6. Cleaning up things around the house.
I don't do much housework. It's not because I'm opposed to it or lazy. Cleaning a floor or something makes for good physical busy-work to distract my hands and body while my mind's engaged in the mental part of my work. But I make up my mind to do it and then days pass before I get to it. Again, I think re-doing my calendar in my phone will help me there.
7. Keeping in touch with people.
This is a big one. I just don't do it. It's like the point where my lack of awareness of the passage of time and my poor memory come together into a perfect storm of "What do you mean it's been three years since I said anything to you?"
Jack has helped me quite a bit there, as he gets anxious if he doesn't hear from me and he lets me know how much he enjoys it when he does. In the past year I've gotten a lot more into the habit of emailing with my family and a few friends, but it still takes effort to keep it up. I've started using Facebook a lot more and made a reading list on LJ so I can make sure I can see what my friends are writing and respond to them every once in a while.
1. The non-writing parts of my work.
This is another one of those "I could do all seven as examples" things. Doesn't matter if they're easy or even fun... filling in character descriptions for the existing character tags has taken me longer in calendar terms than I expected because I'm not doing it every day.
2. Updating my reminder/phone schedule for my new life and new phone.
A lot of the things that I'm neglecting come down to this: my phone isn't reminding me what day it is and what I need to get done. Getting on that is the first thing I'm going to do when I finish this post, I've decided. I'll never keep up Fantasy In Miniature if I don't receive a reminder.
3. Finishing unpacking/de-cluttering/putting my room together.
Despite my grand plans, my loft basically looks the same as it did when I first moved in. No, it looks the same as it did after I moved in and then I furiously dug through boxes and things to find the stuff I needed for the trips I took to Tennessee, Florida, Maryland, and Wisconsin in the two months that followed my move in. The problem is that by the time I was "home" at the dollhouse for any length of time in a row, it was too hot to do anything physical in the upstairs, and then inertia set in.
I'll have to get on this after I go back next week, before it gets too warm. Though this year I should be able to keep the window A/C unit in my own window upstairs, instead of putting it in the window by the stairs where any cold air has to climb to reach me... this was a compromise to try to cool off both my room and our (now gone) other housemate's room, but most of the cold air was just trapped under the stairs. I expect that moving the A/C will make a difference in both livability, and our electric bill.
4. Send out the confirmations to the folks who have bought AA editions since last Friday.
This could go on under 1 but I'm making it its own item so I can make sure it gets done. And also do the corresponding spreadsheet and templating work that will allow me to fulfill the orders when the book launches. Yeah, it's gone a week and I haven't done this. It's a lot of copying and pasting, and I thought I'd brought my USB mouse with me but apparently I didn't. I have one now.
5. Letting people know when I'm having a good time.
This isn't so much "sloth" but it is something I need to remember to do. Apparently it's very hard for people to tell when I'm enjoying myself. I always feel like it should be obvious when I'm having a really good time because I feel so good I think it must show, but apparently it doesn't. Also I'm capable of feeling crushing social anxiety and/or terror at the same time as I'm enjoying myself, and apparently those things show better than the enjoyment.
6. Cleaning up things around the house.
I don't do much housework. It's not because I'm opposed to it or lazy. Cleaning a floor or something makes for good physical busy-work to distract my hands and body while my mind's engaged in the mental part of my work. But I make up my mind to do it and then days pass before I get to it. Again, I think re-doing my calendar in my phone will help me there.
7. Keeping in touch with people.
This is a big one. I just don't do it. It's like the point where my lack of awareness of the passage of time and my poor memory come together into a perfect storm of "What do you mean it's been three years since I said anything to you?"
Jack has helped me quite a bit there, as he gets anxious if he doesn't hear from me and he lets me know how much he enjoys it when he does. In the past year I've gotten a lot more into the habit of emailing with my family and a few friends, but it still takes effort to keep it up. I've started using Facebook a lot more and made a reading list on LJ so I can make sure I can see what my friends are writing and respond to them every once in a while.
