"This is Just to Say..."

[thanate]

Somewhere I have completely lost the ability to get to work on time. Seriously-- I'm turning into Steve, who always used to roll into the lab around 2, having run a few errands after he left the house and then gotten caught at the library, wash nails for a few hours, and then go home to cook dinner... Ironically, Steve has become much more reliable recently. Possibly because there's more lab time vs field time at the moment, and he feels some need to maintain a bit of income (despite his wife's successful law career, which allows him to do this kind of thing.)

Partly I can blame the house and the cat, neither of which is part of my normal daily routine. But largely? Checking my e-mail and doing a bit of whatever-project-I'm-working-on is far more important to me than whether I get to work at all. Clearly this sort of thing should be providing at least some of my pin money.

Comments

[cheshiretiffy.livejournal.com]

Washing....nails? Sorting beads???? Sounds like the kind of strange job I'd enjoy XD

What is it that you do, exactly?

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Archaeology, mainly lab work at the moment. So people go out and dig stuff up in a carefully controlled fashion, and then in the lab we get back bags of all the artifacts (non-natural stuff) they sifted out of the dirt, and we get to wash it and catalog what everything is. It's... sort of boring, but in an interesting way, except that I'm horribly burnt-out on doing any of it.

[heuchera.livejournal.com]

Maybe there is just so much reliability to go around, and Steve stole yours?

Now I want plums, darn it.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Plums? What?

Steve claims he's actually imitating me by working more standard hours and then taking a day off to get things done...

[heuchera.livejournal.com]

This is just to say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

William Carlos Williams? OK, maybe it was just me.

Still want plums. Have strawberries and apple. Not the same.

Even half a day off to get things done sounds remarkably appealing to me, except I'd probably just sleep. Sometimes (often) I want a day off to do nothing. I am also in recovery from a terminally early phase. Huh.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! I'd completely forgotten the subject line.

The problem is when you start taking a half day off to do things, then you start to expect it and your list of things to do increases...

[laeticiav.livejournal.com]

This morning I got up at 7 (=ungodly for me and almost impossible) to prepare for class at 11 and then somehow spent 2 hours puttering around the house, reading LJ and DoA, drinking coffee and I don't know what. I am usually *just* on time, because I'm always procrastinating and then rushing, but sometimes I just start missing everything. Partly, I think it's passive aggression on my part about things I don't want to do. Or maybe some of us just aren't meant for punctual cultures and should have been born in a Mediterranean culture.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Part of my problem is that I'm used to being the sort of person who's terminally early and horribly responsible. So I'm kind of wandering around vaguely wondering what happened and then getting distracted and starting some other little project instead of doing whatever it is I'm supposed to do.