This weekend has been fun: I’ve been as focused as a giraffe’s fart. I keep wandering into the next room and finding jobs I started a while ago and got distracted from. I start things while waiting for something else to finish and the next thing I know I’ve got fourteen browser tabs either uploading [...]
Tagged banging onI need to talk about books again! This week I finished two books I’ve never read before, and both, I am smugly proud to say, are from the “I Have Been Meaning To Read That” shelf. Yes, I know: take a moment to reflect on how great I am. I’ll take the same moment to [...]
Tagged reading timeI always knew I was a hippy at heart. I guess it was just a matter of time until it became apparent to those that surrounded me.
Evidence!
(a) brown rice.
My parentinis, not hippies, used to say “Peace, Love, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Brown rice and Incense”. I knew I loved peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll from a [...]
I have just moved house. What a rigourously discombobulating process that is. I always forget how much it shakes you (well, me) up. Transferring all your possessions to a new location doesn’t seem like a big deal on paper, but unpacking — being brought face-to-face with all the things you’ve bought or that someone has [...]
Tagged banging onI gotta ‘fess up — I didn’t finish all the Unfinished Business that I had hoped to before we moved house. I’d like to tell you that it was by the skin of my teeth, that it was entirely due to bad luck and that I was *that* close to finishing all the knitting projects, [...]
Tagged Mossy Tendrils, reading time, Silver Sands, The Big Pre-Move Challenge, yarn teaches hard lessonsI was doing really well with the whole Finish-Everything-I’ve-Begun challenge. Really well! Finished my Skew socks, then I finished reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma (excellent, fascinating), then When Books Die (charming, interesting, clever and stimulating). Congratulating myself, I turned to the Reading Pile and saw that behemoth. Hoo boy. That up there is Camille [...]
Tagged banging on, reading time, The Big Pre-Move ChallengeMoving house in a month — well, it was a month when I wrote this post, now it’s only three weeks — gives me the opportunity to self-impose one of my favourite challenges: a completely arbitrary deadline against which to stack my wits and energy. The challenge is to finish all the books I’m halfway through [...]
Tagged banging on, reading time, The Big Pre-Move ChallengeI had hoped to finish reading Virgina Woolf’s The Waves today. I picked it up from my Mumini’s groaning bookshelf, having been suddenly and unexpectedly intoxicated with To The Lighthouse while travelling in New Zealand in January.
When I was in my undergrad studies, a berzillion years ago, I read a collection of the love [...]
What can I get done in a month?
It’s going to roll around anyway, what can I do between now and then?
Can I finish Mossy Tendrils? Skew? Another Bagstopper? Can I finish the mitts to go with Silver Sands? What about the little Square Cake bag I had hoped for? Probably not. Not all of them, [...]
When you’ve got Things You Really Should Be Doing, there is no finer time to put bootees on a brown dog:
Sometimes I’m really good at using procrastination to light a fire under other things I’ve been meaning to be doing. It’s a way of legitimising the not-doing: I avoid doing the washing by cleaning the [...]
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