Balancing Act
I’ve taken to doing a Friday Status Update here on the blog, recapping where I’m at and what’s going on in various parts of the world, which means that Thursdays are rapidly becoming the day when I review projects and make decisions about the coming week. I started today by doing a brain dump of all the projects that are occupying my attention at the moment–essentially, the things on my to-do list that are proving sticky, nagging at my attention because I don’t feel adequately in-control or like they’re advancing. The short-list runs something like this: Write my conference paper Prepare for mid-candidature review on my thesis Produce at least two more thesis novella drafts Finalise the current thesis novella draft Write four more thesis chapters Finish Warhol Sleeping Tidy my desk (still a force of chaos) Update the old CGW products (particularly the two books that are at the short-burst-of-busy-work stage) Finish my plan for the the next non-fiction