Vegetables growing: DONE.
Kitchen ceiling painted: DONE.
Poem written in the voice of a medieval weapon of war: DONE.
Thing 1 nursed through
Proofs of forthcoming article reviewed: DONE.
Two very useful works of scholarship read: DONE.
Now can I PLEASE have TEN MINUTES to MYSELF so that I can try to do some writing on this *&$%! book?!
7 comments:
Ten minutes? I think you have earned a whole afternoon! Kudos! (Seriously, impressive list...and good luck with the project.)
Yeah, but remember how, on my post of May 24, I said that I'd be working any day I didn't have the Things? I haven't had, in June, a single day when I wasn't with my kids--except for those couple of days when I was teaching. Which is great, obviously--time with my kids is vital for my equilibrium, but I really, really need a set of hours all together to get any kind of scholarly work done, and haven't had any of that since my self-imposed start-date of June 1. Frustrating.
Poor Thing 1.
I can see how you need some space and time to do the writing thing, but it should make you feel a lot proud of yourself for being a mom first.
I hope life eases up a little so you can do what you need to get done. :)
Anon--Thanks for your sympathies re: Thing 1.
It's not really a matter of choosing to be a mom first vs. a scholar first. I am a mom, all the time. And I'm also a scholar and writer, all the time. They are both 24/7 occupations. Both gigs have real demands attached to them. I'm delighted to spend days on end with the Things. But that means that I spend all night catching up on the real demands of my intellectual life, which makes me 1) sleepless and cranky, and 2) less resistant to the normal coping-challenges of parenting, which means I spend less QUALITY time with the Things. Yes, I'm a mom, but I'm also a person, and both parts of me need to have time, or else the energy gets all off-kilter.
Yes, of course, which is why I hope that other part of life eases up so you can do the important things of the scholarly life. That's all I meant.
Ooh, I've got it! Change your self-imposed start date to July 1 instead and then you are ahead of schedule! :D
(I do understand, though, honestly, and I hope that you find some scholarly time very soon.)
How is it that when we are busy we are VERY busy?
Glad the veg are coming along!
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