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artsyhonkerIt is Thursday, and here we are.
A breath for Thursday. Oof. A breath for all timing is right timing. Yesterday I was not somewhere with both internet access and a keyboard I can type on until late evening, and decided that sleep was a higher priority than Dreamwidth. But now it is Thursday, and here we are.
Ta-da!
I have been finding my macro-routine schedule helpful, though this morning I did things out of order and haven't been out for a walk (more on that later).
I have not yet finished any of the Quests from last Wednesday, but I worked on the composing pretty reliably, and that feels good. I'm no longer stuck on the St Cecilia commission, which is important.
The Hard
I'm worried the St Lawrence's Tears piece may not be suitable for the (professional, famous, somewhat particular) choir that is coming to workshop it. If not, then St Cecilia commission might work as a substitute, but it's... awkward.
I know what I need to say to A Person about Schrödinger's Research Paper but I haven't done it yet because I am still scared of it.
There isn't very much October left and I am worried about missing a bunch of competition deadlines again. Entering competitions is not my highest priority right now, but it still feels like a failure to miss them, especially the Canadians-only ones. I also feel I am behind on work for Cecilia's List.
On Tuesday I tripped over a pram twice and hurt my knee (and some other bits of me but the knee is the most complainy). In retrospect it was kindof funny: the empty pram was stcking out into the way I was walking, and I tripped, but it had wheels and no brakes on so it moved with me and tripped me again as I was righting myself. It was all rather spectacular, in a crowded cathedral refectory, and after I'd stopped falling over I said "BOTHER!" very loudly which amused my lunch companions no end as they had expected stronger language. Nobody else was hurt and I didn't even break the glass bottle I was carrying. Refectory staff were very attentive, I got ice on it right away, and was able to purchase an appropriate support, but I am still trying to take it easy and this is frustrating for me. It comes at a time when my walking fitness and mobility has been increasing because I've been doing a lot of careful graded exercise (quite a bit more gently graded than is usually recommended, but that's jointcrap for you), and I'm scared that if I continue as if nothing happened I will make my knee worse, but that if I don't I will lose what conditioning I have. This uncertainty feels much worse than the acute pain, but it is what it is. A breath for trusting my body to tell me when to move and when to stop. A breath for listening.
The Good
I had a wonderful time in Salisbury, other than the bit where I messed my knee up. There was a bit more rehearsal than was comfortable so I didn't get to see a lot of the place, but I did manage to get some time to myself and get some composing done each day, and it was a good place to sing, and I sang well. Also fudge.
Tomorrow is my birthday. I am glad that I was born.
Quests
Allllll the deadlines! Except, well, no, I can't very well do that, can I?
I think my quest is to get the right things done, and be brave about not doing the things that aren't right for me to do this week. That means:
-LGQ planning
-St Lawrence's Tears
-St Cecilia commission
-Cecilia's List
-competitions
-something for Patreon
The PLN
I read a book about financial management which basically said "spend 50% of your income on stuff you have to commit to: rent etc, then save 20% and have 30% as spending money" and went into various ways to make this work at different income levels and why it's a ratio that works. I thought this was a bit complicated, but I could do 50% on gotta-have and then 25% each on saving and spending money and I wouldn't feel too deprived. (It's a bit wonky at the moment because of doing a degree in another city and the travel etc that is involved in that.)
Where I'm going with this is, I wonder if I can budget my composing time similarly... So, spend 50% of it on PhD stuff, then divide up the other 50% between various other projects: Patreon, competitions, non-PhD commissions, and the like. And then -- can I spend 50% of my working time composing, and 50% on all other tasks? Starting this when I have a bunch of deadlines ganging up on me isn't the best thing, but maybe waiting is worse. I don't know.
Less abstractly: after posting this I can work for 90 minutes until lunch, and then do another 3 90-minute sessions this afternoon and evening. St Lawrence's Tears and the St Cecilia commission are both PhD-related, so the first two sessions will be spent on those; after that I'll decide whether I want to mix it up a bit more, or push to get those two finished and into the computer.
How are you?
What have you done? What are your quests? What is hard in your life? What is good? What is your PLN (or plan)? Do you have a favourite poem, and if so, what is it?
A breath for Thursday. Oof. A breath for all timing is right timing. Yesterday I was not somewhere with both internet access and a keyboard I can type on until late evening, and decided that sleep was a higher priority than Dreamwidth. But now it is Thursday, and here we are.
Ta-da!
I have been finding my macro-routine schedule helpful, though this morning I did things out of order and haven't been out for a walk (more on that later).
I have not yet finished any of the Quests from last Wednesday, but I worked on the composing pretty reliably, and that feels good. I'm no longer stuck on the St Cecilia commission, which is important.
The Hard
I'm worried the St Lawrence's Tears piece may not be suitable for the (professional, famous, somewhat particular) choir that is coming to workshop it. If not, then St Cecilia commission might work as a substitute, but it's... awkward.
I know what I need to say to A Person about Schrödinger's Research Paper but I haven't done it yet because I am still scared of it.
There isn't very much October left and I am worried about missing a bunch of competition deadlines again. Entering competitions is not my highest priority right now, but it still feels like a failure to miss them, especially the Canadians-only ones. I also feel I am behind on work for Cecilia's List.
On Tuesday I tripped over a pram twice and hurt my knee (and some other bits of me but the knee is the most complainy). In retrospect it was kindof funny: the empty pram was stcking out into the way I was walking, and I tripped, but it had wheels and no brakes on so it moved with me and tripped me again as I was righting myself. It was all rather spectacular, in a crowded cathedral refectory, and after I'd stopped falling over I said "BOTHER!" very loudly which amused my lunch companions no end as they had expected stronger language. Nobody else was hurt and I didn't even break the glass bottle I was carrying. Refectory staff were very attentive, I got ice on it right away, and was able to purchase an appropriate support, but I am still trying to take it easy and this is frustrating for me. It comes at a time when my walking fitness and mobility has been increasing because I've been doing a lot of careful graded exercise (quite a bit more gently graded than is usually recommended, but that's jointcrap for you), and I'm scared that if I continue as if nothing happened I will make my knee worse, but that if I don't I will lose what conditioning I have. This uncertainty feels much worse than the acute pain, but it is what it is. A breath for trusting my body to tell me when to move and when to stop. A breath for listening.
The Good
I had a wonderful time in Salisbury, other than the bit where I messed my knee up. There was a bit more rehearsal than was comfortable so I didn't get to see a lot of the place, but I did manage to get some time to myself and get some composing done each day, and it was a good place to sing, and I sang well. Also fudge.
Tomorrow is my birthday. I am glad that I was born.
Quests
Allllll the deadlines! Except, well, no, I can't very well do that, can I?
I think my quest is to get the right things done, and be brave about not doing the things that aren't right for me to do this week. That means:
-LGQ planning
-St Lawrence's Tears
-St Cecilia commission
-Cecilia's List
-competitions
-something for Patreon
The PLN
I read a book about financial management which basically said "spend 50% of your income on stuff you have to commit to: rent etc, then save 20% and have 30% as spending money" and went into various ways to make this work at different income levels and why it's a ratio that works. I thought this was a bit complicated, but I could do 50% on gotta-have and then 25% each on saving and spending money and I wouldn't feel too deprived. (It's a bit wonky at the moment because of doing a degree in another city and the travel etc that is involved in that.)
Where I'm going with this is, I wonder if I can budget my composing time similarly... So, spend 50% of it on PhD stuff, then divide up the other 50% between various other projects: Patreon, competitions, non-PhD commissions, and the like. And then -- can I spend 50% of my working time composing, and 50% on all other tasks? Starting this when I have a bunch of deadlines ganging up on me isn't the best thing, but maybe waiting is worse. I don't know.
Less abstractly: after posting this I can work for 90 minutes until lunch, and then do another 3 90-minute sessions this afternoon and evening. St Lawrence's Tears and the St Cecilia commission are both PhD-related, so the first two sessions will be spent on those; after that I'll decide whether I want to mix it up a bit more, or push to get those two finished and into the computer.
How are you?
What have you done? What are your quests? What is hard in your life? What is good? What is your PLN (or plan)? Do you have a favourite poem, and if so, what is it?
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Date: 2017-10-26 02:48 pm (UTC)My quest is to index my slimming world cook books into an Excel spreadsheet. The idea being that it makes food planning a lot easier - I will have a list of all the recipes that Huw will eat (no mushrooms, peppers, aubergines, beans etc) and the additional ingredients required by the recipe of things I don't routinely have in my storecupboard. I'm half way through so far.
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Date: 2017-10-26 06:49 pm (UTC)I have also finished scheduling the individual parts of a thing I need to finish by the end of the year (if all goes to PLN, I'll finish it on 14 December, which gives me a bit of wiggle room if things don't go to PLN).
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Date: 2017-10-28 01:49 am (UTC)(Well done for saving the glass bottle. :) )