How not to get any writing done
1. Go out of town all the time and try to pack every moment with action. Forget to at least journal at all, despite buying a new notebook.
2. Return to town and be besieged with:
A. mess left from packing for trip
B. mess created unpacking from trip
C. build up of bills to pay, e-mails to reply to, plants gone mad or dying, replying to texts and voice mails
D. appointments made pre-trip
E. engagements with friends, the grocery store, and laundry machine
F. preparing for another trip
3. Trying to tend to all unfinished projects at once so that, when you return from this next trip, you have time and cleanliness for writing productivity (i.e. finish unpacking from move, filing bills from January on and organizing filing system in general, garden things, knitting projects from last fall, uploading pictures from last June on, cleaning up computer so it has enough memory for all this shite to be uploaded, setting up new external HD after old one died, getting rid of stuff so there is space to unpack from move, cleaning things really really good).
4. Get sick and watch stuff on Hulu late at night while drinking tea. Really late at night.
5. Sign up for a 5-class summer yoga pass and then realize that there was a brochure misprint and you only have a week and a half to use your pass and not waste the money.
6. Decide this is the perfect time to try waxing. At home.
7. Facebook. Facebook. And Facebook.
8. Reading other people's blogs.
9. Not having any food of substance to eat at home so needing to go out to eat all the time.
10. Writing blogs like this to give the illusion that I'm really a writer.
2. Return to town and be besieged with:
A. mess left from packing for trip
B. mess created unpacking from trip
C. build up of bills to pay, e-mails to reply to, plants gone mad or dying, replying to texts and voice mails
D. appointments made pre-trip
E. engagements with friends, the grocery store, and laundry machine
F. preparing for another trip
3. Trying to tend to all unfinished projects at once so that, when you return from this next trip, you have time and cleanliness for writing productivity (i.e. finish unpacking from move, filing bills from January on and organizing filing system in general, garden things, knitting projects from last fall, uploading pictures from last June on, cleaning up computer so it has enough memory for all this shite to be uploaded, setting up new external HD after old one died, getting rid of stuff so there is space to unpack from move, cleaning things really really good).
4. Get sick and watch stuff on Hulu late at night while drinking tea. Really late at night.
5. Sign up for a 5-class summer yoga pass and then realize that there was a brochure misprint and you only have a week and a half to use your pass and not waste the money.
6. Decide this is the perfect time to try waxing. At home.
7. Facebook. Facebook. And Facebook.
8. Reading other people's blogs.
9. Not having any food of substance to eat at home so needing to go out to eat all the time.
10. Writing blogs like this to give the illusion that I'm really a writer.
posted by Jess | 2:18 PM
3 Comments:
#6 scares me! Oh no!
Ditto what she said! Also, I want to hear more about the plants driven mad....
Okay, waxing--a mystery to me. I hear all these horror stories and I think, what's the big deal? So I try it, clueless as to what I'm doing at home. Results--OWWWW. PAINFUL AND POORLY DONE AND TIME CONSUMING!
Plants driven mad? What happens when you leave your tomato plants untended, but watered in super hot Seattle July--9 foot plant with two green tomatoes, that's what! INSANE.
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