3/9/05: Sort of out of sorts

[davidlevine]

Editing hours: 5.6 | Since last entry: 3.2 | Percent complete: 8%

Over an hour of editing tonight, but I'm still frustrated. I got in an hour on the plane to Potlatch, but nothing at the con and only a few minutes on the plane back. Monday was Japanese class, and yesterday I came home from work with a splitting headache and didn't have the energy to do anything productive. Which is not to say I got to sleep at a reasonable hour. Grr.

Potlatch was a pretty good convention -- had many nice conversations and meals with friends new and old, including jaylake, jedediah, zellandyne, elisem, xthread, akirlu, libertango, naomi_traveller, and Lise WINOLJ -- but I felt rather out of sorts for the whole thing. Maybe it was just lack of sleep, but somehow I just wasn't in the mood to enjoy it completely.

At the moment I am trying to remember what in life gives me joy. (It's not editing, that's for sure.) I'm also wondering if, when I remember that, I will be able to find the time to do it. I'm bogged down with responsibilities and somehow not finding the time to focus on any of them.

This will pass, I think. Sleep would certainly help.

Comments

[deedop.livejournal.com]

Sympathies. Take care of yourself, get some sleep, and maybe see if there's a block of time a little later in the month when you can do a full day or two of editing and build up some momentum. It may not be all that pleasant to start with, but perhaps just the immersion in it and the resulting progress will bring some joy.

[davidlevine]

Thanks for the suggestion. I got a good night's sleep last night and I'm feeling better today. I do hope to get in a solid stint of editing over Easter weekend, because I'm not going to Minicon (waah!) or Norwescon.