It’s a funny thing, but a universal truth: doing nothing is incredibly tiring. It’s also very funny how one feels so completely unproductive without a deadline hanging over one’s jugular. Why is it that the ideas start to flow only at a time when things are insanely busy?
With no pressing work (as in work that pays bills), this would be the perfect time to:
- Finish up a proposal I’m writing to get someone interested in one of my projects.
- Really get going with Kinnel’s Prison.
- Finalize that long-overdue makeover of my websites.
- Do more book reviews. (Because one of the things I am doing is reading a lot.
- Update my blog more often!
On a more positive note, here is what I have been doing:
- Reading: Currently Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.
- Watching: Brothers and Sisters, Grey’s Anatomy and Remington Steele.
- Socializing: Oh yes, you read right! With an old school friend who’s in town, and with people at the gym.
- Training: For the Bangalore 10k in May, though may not be able to particpate as parents will be in town, and due to leave that day.
- Trying to keep the Devil’s Workshop at bay.
Now if only I could start writing! Thanks to Katie, though, I do have a writing assignment — with a penalty for not completing — so there’s motivation!
~PD
Maybe you are a littlte too busy, Payal Bug. You spelled jugular, socializing, and incredibly wrong 🙁
😆 I lied! Did your heart miss a beat?
Damn it, you got me!
👿
Blog about the other workshop, the Kanpur one. Yes, I’m busy shamelessly publicizing it on the net. Spread the word!
It has been on my agenda. 😉
Wow – with so much to do, how can you even complain of not having ‘work’? But I get that about paying bills – sometimes I find myself unable to do so even with work!!
Btw, did a blog post on Fred Vargas – do read when you can. And yeah, been a while since I read reviews here.