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edenfalling) wrote2017-07-07 07:54 pm
edenfalling) wrote2017-07-07 07:54 pm
stuff done: Monday-Friday
1. Took weekly Monday photographs of my vegetables, but forgot to post them online. Ah well. I will do a two-weeks-in-one post this coming Monday.
2. Walked to the Cayuga St. bridge to watch my town's fireworks display at 9:45pm Monday night. (Ithaca usually does fireworks a day or two before the 4th. I am not sure when or why that offset started, but at this point it's a tradition and continues through sheer inertia.)
3. Wrote four fic DVD commentaries. :)
4. Sorted another coffee table box into a nice, intentional-looking storage basket. This one is art supplies. I still have to sort through the box of pens and pencils (which, forget WHY I have that many pencils; I am more interested in HOW I have so many pencils. where did they even come from???), but even that box is now accessible instead of buried under layers of random junk.
The fourth and last box will be hardest, I think. The first two were pretty simple, just all my Not the IRS stuff, and my collection of pictures and photo albums, both of which were fairly self-contained and organized groupings. The art supplies were, again, a fairly coherent grouping. The fourth box, though, contains a bunch of old art projects, a bunch of family letters, and a bunch of images/words/etc. that I have been saving as inspiration materials for various original worlds and stories, and how do you organize that? Well, I suppose I start by sorting it and work from there. *sigh*
5. Susan called on Tuesday evening (as arranged) and we chatted for about an hour.
6. Cleared out most of my email inboxes. There are still a couple things I need to deal with and then either delete or file to the relevant folders, but both my meatspace and fannish inboxes had gotten up to ~25 items and that's just way too unwieldy. I don't like more than about seven messages in an inbox, maybe ten at the outside. Otherwise I start feeling sort of hemmed in and anxious.
7. Forwarded a bunch of emails (and provided some other information) to Dad as he fought BestBuy over our family Webroot and tech support subscriptions. (The problem, you see, is that originally they had a two-machine Webroot subscription that started in April. Then they added my laptop to the plan, which meant we started a new plan in July of last year. The old plan was supposed to be cancelled at that time. As I am sure you have guessed, the cancellation did not go through, and we have been trying to get that untangled ever since.)
8. Emailed the DRE about 2017-18 youth group plans. She has not yet replied (I am not unduly worried, as she's dealing with some complicated life stuff this month), but I will poke her again tomorrow.
9. Withdrew cash to pay for a haircut on Friday and laundry on Sunday.
10. Got the haircut. I also acquired a phone number for a local guy who my barber thinks I would get along with. I am debating whether or not to call him, because on the one hand, friends are nice, but on the other, socializing is hard work and I'm a little afraid this was presented to him as a potential romantic relationship, which is... not really in the cards, you know?
I guess I will try to decide one way or the other by next weekend.
11. Paid my monthly internet bill.
12. Filed or recycled a bunch of papers that had started to clutter my living room table.
13. Came up with a new organizational plan for my (non-work-day) mornings which I hope will increase my general productivity and break me out of what is becoming an unhealthy pattern. The new plan is that instead of eating breakfast at my computer, I will eat breakfast at my living room table while reading actual print media (magazines, books, etc.) instead of websurfing. Then, once I do wake my laptop up, I am not allowed to go online until I've done some writing -- minimum of five or ten minutes, though I hope as I get into this pattern, the writing time will naturally increase.
This will make sure I start out my day doing things I want to be doing anyway, and not getting sidetracked into just refreshing Tumblr all day.
Today was my first attempt, and I think it worked fairly well. I didn't write lots, but two paragraphs is more than I'd been managing over the past week, and I also read the entirety of this week's Ithaca Times, our local free weekly newspaper, so. :)
14. Created an online account with Vanguard so I can A) manage my stocks online and B) get e-statements instead of paper mailings that I mostly toss straight into the recycling. I am not sure why I didn't do that years ago.
15. Bought groceries. (I also returned a whole bunch of cans for their bottle deposits. I must remember to talk to Upstairs Neighbor E about putting their seltzer cans into a box or bag at my apartment door so I don't have to keep fishing them out of the communal recycling bins.)
16. Wrote daily to-do lists for the coming week.
17. Did some outlining work for an original story I may or may not get around to writing.
18. Applied a little MiracleGro to my peppers and squash.
19. Took kitchen compost to the communal bin.
20. Scheduled a Red Cross blood donation appointment for this coming Thursday.
21. Applied to TC3! (I mean, I fudged some dates because I don't remember the exact end dates of my association with my high school and previous colleges. I can tell you month and year, sure! But exact day? Pfff, no. I assume they will understand and cut me slack on that front.) Tomorrow I will start arranging for transcripts. I believe I can do that online for the two colleges. For my high school, I think I have to make a phone call, so that will wait for Monday.
22. Emailed Vicky about some super-secret plans we may or may not be conspiring over. ;)
And that is that!
For the record? My productivity was wildly uneven this week. Points 1 through 8 took four days (Monday-Thursday), whereas points 9-22 were all done in a single day (Friday). This is because I knocked my sleep schedule completely out of whack and did not manage to yank it back on track for several days, during which I kind of zombied around doing nothing in particular. I can't even say I was relaxing and enjoying myself; I was mostly just going through the motions and hoping some spark of emotion/inspiration would light me up.
I really need to stop letting my sleep schedule drift. That is utterly devastating to my ability to be a functional person.
2. Walked to the Cayuga St. bridge to watch my town's fireworks display at 9:45pm Monday night. (Ithaca usually does fireworks a day or two before the 4th. I am not sure when or why that offset started, but at this point it's a tradition and continues through sheer inertia.)
3. Wrote four fic DVD commentaries. :)
4. Sorted another coffee table box into a nice, intentional-looking storage basket. This one is art supplies. I still have to sort through the box of pens and pencils (which, forget WHY I have that many pencils; I am more interested in HOW I have so many pencils. where did they even come from???), but even that box is now accessible instead of buried under layers of random junk.
The fourth and last box will be hardest, I think. The first two were pretty simple, just all my Not the IRS stuff, and my collection of pictures and photo albums, both of which were fairly self-contained and organized groupings. The art supplies were, again, a fairly coherent grouping. The fourth box, though, contains a bunch of old art projects, a bunch of family letters, and a bunch of images/words/etc. that I have been saving as inspiration materials for various original worlds and stories, and how do you organize that? Well, I suppose I start by sorting it and work from there. *sigh*
5. Susan called on Tuesday evening (as arranged) and we chatted for about an hour.
6. Cleared out most of my email inboxes. There are still a couple things I need to deal with and then either delete or file to the relevant folders, but both my meatspace and fannish inboxes had gotten up to ~25 items and that's just way too unwieldy. I don't like more than about seven messages in an inbox, maybe ten at the outside. Otherwise I start feeling sort of hemmed in and anxious.
7. Forwarded a bunch of emails (and provided some other information) to Dad as he fought BestBuy over our family Webroot and tech support subscriptions. (The problem, you see, is that originally they had a two-machine Webroot subscription that started in April. Then they added my laptop to the plan, which meant we started a new plan in July of last year. The old plan was supposed to be cancelled at that time. As I am sure you have guessed, the cancellation did not go through, and we have been trying to get that untangled ever since.)
8. Emailed the DRE about 2017-18 youth group plans. She has not yet replied (I am not unduly worried, as she's dealing with some complicated life stuff this month), but I will poke her again tomorrow.
9. Withdrew cash to pay for a haircut on Friday and laundry on Sunday.
10. Got the haircut. I also acquired a phone number for a local guy who my barber thinks I would get along with. I am debating whether or not to call him, because on the one hand, friends are nice, but on the other, socializing is hard work and I'm a little afraid this was presented to him as a potential romantic relationship, which is... not really in the cards, you know?
I guess I will try to decide one way or the other by next weekend.
11. Paid my monthly internet bill.
12. Filed or recycled a bunch of papers that had started to clutter my living room table.
13. Came up with a new organizational plan for my (non-work-day) mornings which I hope will increase my general productivity and break me out of what is becoming an unhealthy pattern. The new plan is that instead of eating breakfast at my computer, I will eat breakfast at my living room table while reading actual print media (magazines, books, etc.) instead of websurfing. Then, once I do wake my laptop up, I am not allowed to go online until I've done some writing -- minimum of five or ten minutes, though I hope as I get into this pattern, the writing time will naturally increase.
This will make sure I start out my day doing things I want to be doing anyway, and not getting sidetracked into just refreshing Tumblr all day.
Today was my first attempt, and I think it worked fairly well. I didn't write lots, but two paragraphs is more than I'd been managing over the past week, and I also read the entirety of this week's Ithaca Times, our local free weekly newspaper, so. :)
14. Created an online account with Vanguard so I can A) manage my stocks online and B) get e-statements instead of paper mailings that I mostly toss straight into the recycling. I am not sure why I didn't do that years ago.
15. Bought groceries. (I also returned a whole bunch of cans for their bottle deposits. I must remember to talk to Upstairs Neighbor E about putting their seltzer cans into a box or bag at my apartment door so I don't have to keep fishing them out of the communal recycling bins.)
16. Wrote daily to-do lists for the coming week.
17. Did some outlining work for an original story I may or may not get around to writing.
18. Applied a little MiracleGro to my peppers and squash.
19. Took kitchen compost to the communal bin.
20. Scheduled a Red Cross blood donation appointment for this coming Thursday.
21. Applied to TC3! (I mean, I fudged some dates because I don't remember the exact end dates of my association with my high school and previous colleges. I can tell you month and year, sure! But exact day? Pfff, no. I assume they will understand and cut me slack on that front.) Tomorrow I will start arranging for transcripts. I believe I can do that online for the two colleges. For my high school, I think I have to make a phone call, so that will wait for Monday.
22. Emailed Vicky about some super-secret plans we may or may not be conspiring over. ;)
And that is that!
For the record? My productivity was wildly uneven this week. Points 1 through 8 took four days (Monday-Thursday), whereas points 9-22 were all done in a single day (Friday). This is because I knocked my sleep schedule completely out of whack and did not manage to yank it back on track for several days, during which I kind of zombied around doing nothing in particular. I can't even say I was relaxing and enjoying myself; I was mostly just going through the motions and hoping some spark of emotion/inspiration would light me up.
I really need to stop letting my sleep schedule drift. That is utterly devastating to my ability to be a functional person.