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I'm filled with a lot of thoughts on stuff today. Most of it goes in all directions, but it's been a little while since I've said anything here so I figured I'd weigh in a bit while I was having my late morning coffee. I've got Saturday off, I don't know exactly why I was scheduled like I was, but we're short people at work so I seem to be working more weekdays than I used to. Particularly Thursdays, which require a greater-than-normal morning staff because mattresses come in. Most days right now, we're a little more than 100. When the winter gets more entrenched and sales explode, it'll be 300 a day, then 400 on particularly rough days. I still have some photos I took last year of the warehouse at 500+ mattresses. You'd be amazed at how much space they take up, I think.
Katie's gone for the weekend, in Chicago for a convention. I wasn't particularly interested in going to Chicago for a convention, of all things, and particularly not when the weather's cold. Because I typically work on the weekends, I opted out in the Spring when tickets were bought. In the past, I've gotten messily drunk when Katie's left town and I think that's because I always felt that if Kay was going to get to have fun and indulge a little, I could too, but isn't drinking alone kind of a dangerous past time? So, I'm teetotaling the weekend, but I might treat myself to a small pizza from the Imo's up the street since I almost never order anything like that. It's a good compromise, I assure you.
Um, I don't think I'll be doing NaNo specifically, this November. But my writing has picked up a lot, and I think I'll be focusing on writing as a past time during the month, and I won't be surprised if my overall word count hits the required amount. I'll be writing a variety of things and I think I'll even keep them in a central location, then I'll total them up when the month is over. I've decided that I don't care for NaNo as a thing, personally. I think the focus of just writing anything without regard for process or quality put sand in my gears in a way I don't typically expect it to, and focusing on one thing to the exclusion of anything else I need or want to work on prevented me from doing much at all, since when I was working on one thing, I always wanted to be working on another.
My current process is to select a few specific projects and break them up into segments. I pick one stage on each project to work on, and I focus on completing the one stage of each project I've chosen before I can work on the next. My tendency is to flit from one to the other. I recognize that it's arbitrary and it ultimately relies on the same sense of willpower and direction that just focusing on a single project does, but pitting various projects against each other where I have to complete a stage on all of them to move on with any of them is a process that's been working for me. I think normally I'd be derisive of that kind of mental crutch, but since I'm actually progressing on things where I haven't when I tried to focus single-mindedly on something without someone breathing down my neck for a completed project, I'll continue to lean on it for the time being. Maybe I won't consider it a crutch. I'll just consider it a process, so long as things are actually proceeding.
If you want to know how I am, well, things are just as dire as they've ever been, but tomorrow looks better than yesterday.
Katie's gone for the weekend, in Chicago for a convention. I wasn't particularly interested in going to Chicago for a convention, of all things, and particularly not when the weather's cold. Because I typically work on the weekends, I opted out in the Spring when tickets were bought. In the past, I've gotten messily drunk when Katie's left town and I think that's because I always felt that if Kay was going to get to have fun and indulge a little, I could too, but isn't drinking alone kind of a dangerous past time? So, I'm teetotaling the weekend, but I might treat myself to a small pizza from the Imo's up the street since I almost never order anything like that. It's a good compromise, I assure you.
Um, I don't think I'll be doing NaNo specifically, this November. But my writing has picked up a lot, and I think I'll be focusing on writing as a past time during the month, and I won't be surprised if my overall word count hits the required amount. I'll be writing a variety of things and I think I'll even keep them in a central location, then I'll total them up when the month is over. I've decided that I don't care for NaNo as a thing, personally. I think the focus of just writing anything without regard for process or quality put sand in my gears in a way I don't typically expect it to, and focusing on one thing to the exclusion of anything else I need or want to work on prevented me from doing much at all, since when I was working on one thing, I always wanted to be working on another.
My current process is to select a few specific projects and break them up into segments. I pick one stage on each project to work on, and I focus on completing the one stage of each project I've chosen before I can work on the next. My tendency is to flit from one to the other. I recognize that it's arbitrary and it ultimately relies on the same sense of willpower and direction that just focusing on a single project does, but pitting various projects against each other where I have to complete a stage on all of them to move on with any of them is a process that's been working for me. I think normally I'd be derisive of that kind of mental crutch, but since I'm actually progressing on things where I haven't when I tried to focus single-mindedly on something without someone breathing down my neck for a completed project, I'll continue to lean on it for the time being. Maybe I won't consider it a crutch. I'll just consider it a process, so long as things are actually proceeding.
If you want to know how I am, well, things are just as dire as they've ever been, but tomorrow looks better than yesterday.