June books: 4/9
(The Ministry of Time and The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen)
It’s Friday, squiders. Unlike many people, I am not a Yay Weekend person; weekends tend to be stuffed full of activities and not terribly relaxing, so the approach of the weekend does not fill me with relief.
Alas.
This has been the first week both kids have been out of school for the summer and home (last week my oldest was at Sea Base and my youngest had a day camp) and it has been trying for all involved. That may be why we’re not getting anywhere on the revision, because I honestly haven’t had time to sit down and think about anything. Or think, in general.
Do flounders flounder? They’re weirdly flat.
Sorry, stray thought.
(You know what’s a really big flatfish? Halibut. They’re, like, freakishly large.)
(I saw one try to eat a diver at an aquarium last summer and now they haunt my nightmares.)
(I suspect halibut are filter feeders and can’t actually do any damage, but seeing an eight-foot fish lunge at a diver is still frightening.)
(Sorry. I suspect I have ADHD and that is part of all my problems in life.)
ANYWAY.
I took the kids to the coffee shop with me today, which turned out to be a terrible idea, because the oldest’s computers (yes, multiple) wouldn’t connect to the Internet which was A Problem that I had to deal with, and the youngest was playing a wedding design game and kept wanting my input.
Every so often I have to take the kids to the coffee shop with me in the hopes that they are finally old enough to work on their own while I work. We are not there yet. But it could happen at any point.
And then my laptop’s battery died, and I had gotten nothing done, so here we are. Not revising.
I did do my morning pages though. Not at the coffee shop, once I got home. At like 2 in the afternoon. In general the morning pages are great! I’m really enjoying the exercise of just writing for 10 minutes on whatever.
The morning part continues to be a misnomer. I think of the 12 days I’ve been working on them (I didn’t get them done on the 10th, which we shall just ignore), only 3 days have been first thing in the morning, which is kind of the point–to do them before anything else.
It’s a combo of things, from not being a morning person to trying to get everyone coordinated first thing and running out of time. Oftentimes I’m getting up and rushing out and about, and don’t have time to sit down and do anything, let alone write.
The logical thing would be to figure out a time when I can reliably do them, but I’m not sure that exists. So maybe just doing them whenever I get to them is the right option. Except, like Tuesday, that might mean that they occasionally get skipped. (I went to the Coldplay concert, so, you know, trade-offs.)
I would like to do them first thing. Start the day off on a good foot, tap into early morning creativity before the weight of the day catches up with you. But it may not be, and I don’t feel like they’re harder to do at other times. I actually really liked what I had this afternoon.
The experiment continues. I suppose I might get my life together and start doing them first thing consistently. Weirder things have happened.
Hope your week and projects are going well! See you next week!
