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Badger Badger Badger
And just for good measure:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
A very nice new year. We didn't do a thing.
2008 certainly brought a lot of changes. It's a little strange to not have regular employment, but I just discovered the difference between being a slacker and being idle and, tongue in cheek though it may be, it provides much food for thought.
It is so easy to while away the whole day on routine things like cooking and vacuuming. No job, no television, very little internet, yet still the hours are gone before I know it. It's a little scary, but I attribute it to the massive task of digesting all that is new and changed in this past year. How much down-time is necessary? We have done quite a bit this year by some measures, but by others it's as if I've mostly wasted the past six months. On the plus side, this has in no way drained our resources, but the rate of progress is definitely going to have to pick up if the grand scheme is to be realized.
The theme for January will be "marketing", which with luck will translate into "clients" and "work" and maybe even "money". I'm feeling kind of reticent about jumping in to the whole professional catering thing, it's going to be quite a lot of work. The effort is cursed by lack of urgency. However, I've found that procrastination is often much more useful than it seems. Whenever I feel like this, it's because there is something wrong - usually not anything that derails the project, but more often some basic conceptual error that would have meant that any forced action - being "disciplined" - would have been moving things in the wrong direction.
Some of my very best work has been achieved subconsciously, while staring into space, or otherwise "wasting" time. The most significant problems I've faced have been solved by good old-fashioned avoidance. It took years for me to stop beating myself up over lack of "progress", and it is a great leap of faith to let go of its traditional indicators. I sure hope some of that is happening now.
Badger Badger Badger
And just for good measure:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
A very nice new year. We didn't do a thing.
2008 certainly brought a lot of changes. It's a little strange to not have regular employment, but I just discovered the difference between being a slacker and being idle and, tongue in cheek though it may be, it provides much food for thought.
It is so easy to while away the whole day on routine things like cooking and vacuuming. No job, no television, very little internet, yet still the hours are gone before I know it. It's a little scary, but I attribute it to the massive task of digesting all that is new and changed in this past year. How much down-time is necessary? We have done quite a bit this year by some measures, but by others it's as if I've mostly wasted the past six months. On the plus side, this has in no way drained our resources, but the rate of progress is definitely going to have to pick up if the grand scheme is to be realized.
The theme for January will be "marketing", which with luck will translate into "clients" and "work" and maybe even "money". I'm feeling kind of reticent about jumping in to the whole professional catering thing, it's going to be quite a lot of work. The effort is cursed by lack of urgency. However, I've found that procrastination is often much more useful than it seems. Whenever I feel like this, it's because there is something wrong - usually not anything that derails the project, but more often some basic conceptual error that would have meant that any forced action - being "disciplined" - would have been moving things in the wrong direction.
Some of my very best work has been achieved subconsciously, while staring into space, or otherwise "wasting" time. The most significant problems I've faced have been solved by good old-fashioned avoidance. It took years for me to stop beating myself up over lack of "progress", and it is a great leap of faith to let go of its traditional indicators. I sure hope some of that is happening now.
