Just a quick note to say I’m still alive, just not writing much.
Posts Tagged ‘busy’
Thinking about thinking about doing something »
I wouldn’t call what I’ve been in a “slump.” I’ve had ideas, and they’d be good things to write down; old projects have new life and new projects come to mind on a regular basis. What I don’t have is time, or energy, or desire. I’m busy a lot of the time, and when I’m not busy I’m tired. Even when I could potentially work after resting, I just don’t feel like pushing myself so hard that I burn out.
This is why I wanted to drop out. I just don’t have the energy to do stuff during the semester. I don’t understand why those two nights of classes wipe me out like they do, but between my job (which requires a great deal of extroversion when I’m an introvert, and subsequently drains me emotionally and mentally) and three 12-15 hour days in each five day work week (two of class, one of D&D which, being social activity, still requires extroversion as well as mental work since I run the game), I’m just gone by the weekend. So I don’t write, and I don’t bother to record videos, and I haven’t done a podcast in I-don’t-know-how-long.
Returning to the Library »
After a week pitching in at the Help Desk (faculty/staff call center), I’m back to the Labs (student support) and my managerial tasks. Ambivalence abounds about my job.
A Christmas Mystery »
I totally took the weekend off and did nothing but read books I like, accomplishing little of value to the wider world. I hope my promises of productivity will keep you satisfied, dear Internet, because that’s all you have forthcoming for the next week. It’s the holiday season, which means family and more family and, subsequently, no time for locking myself away in the office and writing.
On the plus side, I did get a winter newsletter done on Sunday, though it took much longer than I had anticipated. This will go up either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. I’ll decide after I schedule this post.
I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed holiday. Merry Christmas everyone!
A Change in Direction »
I’m shifting the Online Bible Study from an in-depth verse-by-verse look at a single book in the Bible to a more topical approach. I need to learn what the Bible has to say about spiritual warfare, so I’m going to start taking a look at Isaiah.
Microblogging »
Not much homework done today, and every time I looked at a blank page to write I felt unaccountably weary. Too many memories floating around
Permission to Loaf »
Between a broken bone, a busy work schedule, and our increased involvement with church, not much writing has happened. Despite that, I’m not going to force myself to work more. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Moving to the Library »
Am I busy? Yes. But it’s also wonderful.
If you follow my Twitter you’ve already got a good idea what the last few days have been like. We’ve been booked solid, working or running errands all day and entertaining every evening, so we haven’t had a lot of downtime, let alone writing time. In the last three days I’ve found an hour to learn Evernote and forty-five more minutes to transcribe notes into it and play with organization schemas. I’m also learning/trying Remember the Milk as a task list and I’m liking it quite a bit better than anything I have tried before.
Theological Inspiration »
Since I began carrying a moleskine notebook around with me, I’ve been jotting down copious notes about stories, blog entries, and poems that I’d like to write. Specifically, and notably since we began visiting the Vineyard on Sunday mornings, I’ve had a lot of theological inspiration resulting in a number of theological blog entries.
I’ve got more lined up for the story about Sargent Faithful, and I’d like that to become a regular feature here at SilverPen, but my writing time is pretty limited right now and at the end of the evening I found that I had written three pieces about religion and absolutely no fiction. I had meant to write another story, but here we are: 10 PM, I’m about to go to bed, and the next part isn’t written. I guess maybe next week?
