I'm having trouble this week getting work done.
And by "work," I refer to the book manuscript I am supposed to be working on. I started a new chapter this week, and I think I am not ready to write it. I think I need to do some more reading in order to take an article-length thing and make it a chapter-length thing, with a very different style.
And then there's the whole Tiny Boy Doesn't Sleep issue. Not sure why he went those LONG stretches last week and now is back to the madness. Like, last night, he was talking to himself at around 2:00 in the morning and then almost an hour later a cat came into the room and then he was like I want out of this crib NOW and as I went to nurse him AGAIN it occurred to me that he smelled bad and, yes, I had to change a poopy diaper somewhere around 3:30 in the morning. And then he still woke up in the 5:00 hour to nurse. I think. It's all hard to remember.
And this week the JOB is also interfering with work. I was at a meeting yesterday. And I had to pick up refreshments for a reading tonight. And then I'll have to drop them off today and then show up tonight to actually do the event.
And this has been the week of home-repair estimates. Trees must be yanked. Roof must be repaired. Ceiling fans need to be properly secured so they don't freak me the fuck out anymore. Yadda yadda yadda. Yay for my tax refund.
I think now maybe I will take a shower. And clean something. And then maybe I'll have figured out something to write. Just in time to go to campus.
And by "work," I refer to the book manuscript I am supposed to be working on. I started a new chapter this week, and I think I am not ready to write it. I think I need to do some more reading in order to take an article-length thing and make it a chapter-length thing, with a very different style.
And then there's the whole Tiny Boy Doesn't Sleep issue. Not sure why he went those LONG stretches last week and now is back to the madness. Like, last night, he was talking to himself at around 2:00 in the morning and then almost an hour later a cat came into the room and then he was like I want out of this crib NOW and as I went to nurse him AGAIN it occurred to me that he smelled bad and, yes, I had to change a poopy diaper somewhere around 3:30 in the morning. And then he still woke up in the 5:00 hour to nurse. I think. It's all hard to remember.
And this week the JOB is also interfering with work. I was at a meeting yesterday. And I had to pick up refreshments for a reading tonight. And then I'll have to drop them off today and then show up tonight to actually do the event.
And this has been the week of home-repair estimates. Trees must be yanked. Roof must be repaired. Ceiling fans need to be properly secured so they don't freak me the fuck out anymore. Yadda yadda yadda. Yay for my tax refund.
I think now maybe I will take a shower. And clean something. And then maybe I'll have figured out something to write. Just in time to go to campus.
hard to write when one is whithout hefty blocks of uninterrupted time (preferrably after a restful night). Can we just consider every word a victory, and throw a little party each time, to remind you that any writing in those conditions is superhuman.
ReplyDeleteAugusta, you are too kind.
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