The Aerie
Two days into July, and what's the plan?
I have no idea.
I have to admit ot a bit of confusion about what to do with myself. My goal is to work on my novel, hopefully finish it up. But I'm finding it very easy to putter away entire days accomplishing nothing.
Part of it is just that there's such a mess in my office, as well as a zillion of chores around the house. I could spent the entire month doing chores. So at some point I have to buckle down and actually write.
Not that I'm complaining! I'm taking a whole month off, so I can't complain. How many people aside from the President get to take a whole month off?
When I started the contract in April of 2004 I had to wait five weeks to get paid. That made May of 2004 a very tense month.
But on the upside, following the end of the contract 0n June 30th, I get paid for five more weeks while doing no work at all! So it's a well-deserved break, and one eagerly awaited.
But now that it's here, I'm not exactly sure what to do with it.
This is why I need to be independently wealthy. Because I just have too much to do to have the time to work. I could spend the next month working on my novel. I could spend it fixing things around the house. I could spend it cleaning the house. And I can't get any of them done if I do more than one of them.
And while I don't want to spend the whole month working, I don't want to come out of it having gotten nothing accomplished.
What it comes down to is that I'm not very good at having time off. I guess I just need more practice!
And then there's the question of "just having fun." As many people who know me have pointed out on more than one occasion, I don't know how to "just have fun." Given a month off, I contemplate different types of work I could do. Does it even occur to me to spend the time biking around the Twin Cities or playing handball or joining a theater group? Not a bit. I gotta work on this.
So we'll see what the month has to bring. My resolutions so far are to hit the gym every day (again) and to blog every day. I figure these are reasonable requirements, with the understanding that I won't be perfect at them. I did pretty well last month - missed the gym only four times, which amounts to six days a week. That's pretty good.
I don't know what effect it's having, as I've been deliberately staying away from the scale. The point, after all, is to get healthy, not to necessarily lose weight or look a particular way. However, I do have some pants I bought last winter when things were at their worst, and they've become very uncomfortable to wear - in order to sinch the belt tight enough to hold them up they bunch up uncomfortably around the waist. So maybe I'm getting a little slimmer. I didn't really think about it at the time, but this is all wonderful timing for my upcoming 25th high school reunion.
So this month it's exercise in the morning, blog in the evening, and write in between. And if I can get anything else done along the way, great.
Maybe I can even practice having some fun...
Posted by Albatross at July 2, 2005 12:11 AM