I have a lot of respect for the power of habit. I think the brain — well, the whole damn sack of meat, really — is an astonishingly efficient system, one that identifies habits and streamlines things so you get better at doing the things you do most often. In some ways, this is awesome: [...]
Tagged reading timeI have had a rough time at work lately. I realise ten-hour days and a workload like standing in front of a puke-spewing fire hose is the norm in some workplaces, but it took a coworker’s sudden illness to establish that situation for me, and I don’t like it much (although I guess now I can say [...]
Tagged reading timeI have a new house! (The capsicum bushes were a big selling point. Drawn in gimp.) M and I have been nestling into our new territory by cooking. On our first weekend, M made a gloriously tasty batch of croissants. Ooooh, croissants: you taste even better when you are made in celebration of a new [...]
Tagged beautiful soup, nourishLike happy little geckoes, we are settling into our new hollow log and I am learning new things about it all the time. It turns out M and I aren’t the kind of sharp-eyed, high-cheekboned, young-and-ruthlessly-ascendant real estate moguls you might see on a polished reality TV show. We’re more the kind of wool-hat-wearing, enthusiastic-but-basically-unobservant [...]
Tagged banging onJust stop it. I know, you’ve got a whoooooole day to squander. Plenty of time, right? You can cook, knit, do the sudoku, do the cryptic crossword, and still have heaps of time left over. Plenty of time for writing/whatever thing you were going to do today. Probably not. I have this conversation with myself [...]
Tagged etc.I procrastinate a lot. I think there’s probably a fairly robust argument to be made that currently working on this blog post is a form of procrastination, since I’m supposed to be working on something else, but let’s move past that issue, shall we? I have always used doing the washing as a procrastination tool: [...]
Tagged etc.I put off unpacking my suitcase as long as I could. It’s as though, in the dim, kindergarten parts of my brain, I felt like unpacking would be the step that prevented me from going overseas again. Not the necessity of going back to my day job, not the lack of funds, no sir: washing [...]
I look all around me on the blogoscope and all I see is post after post encapsulating what 2009 meant to people, usually in the form of “My Most Favourite Books/Songs/Snacks of 2009″ lists. I kinda like it, even if I haven’t seen more than, oh, two movies this year and certainly didn’t read enough [...]
Still behind on that NaNo word count, huh? Yeah, me too. Mostly because I get easily distracted. Like writing blog posts on things that are tangentially related to NaNo. Beans! Delicious, recently-roasted Alan’s Blend from Coffee for Connoisseurs, waiting to be ground. I’ve ordered from there a few times and I heartily reccommend the Espresso [...]
Tagged etc., NaNoIf, like me, you’re behind on your wordcount for NaNoWriMo — and by behind, I mean you would have to write 13,000 words today in order to bring yourself up to where you’re meant to be by two days ago — there are many options available to you to offset the pang of an arbitrarily [...]
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