The last few days have been a roller coaster, but at least they haven’t been a luge.
Monday was, I think, a post-travel crash. The Rainforest Writer’s Retreat was great, and I’m excited to hopefully do it again next year. I didn’t sleep a lot on Sunday, as I tried to get stuff ready for the rest of the week: buying groceries, prepping breakfasts and lunches in an attempt to eat better, that sort of thing. So Monday was an unfocused malaise, where I was barely able to do anything but some light reading for my Content Management Systems class. Which sucked, given how productive the retreat felt. I did still get my words of new fiction in, which was good.
But that was not nearly as good as Tuesday, where I apparently found all of my brain and some mysterious extra that I just sort of squished onto the side. I plowed through my homework, researched about reprinting old pulp titles, wrote new stuff, proofread/formatted-as-needed two pieces, uploaded one and sent off the other to Peter to beta read, and even managed a blog post in there. Ideally, most of my days would be like this, but given I ended up staying up late finishing a last few things, perhaps it’s best if I don’t do quite as many things every day.
Trying to have days like this all the time is actually part of why I stopped keeping a bullet journal this year and instead switched to a (Passion Planner)[http://www.passionplanner.com “Passion Planner Website”]. It lets me be looser about whether or not I have a to-do list every day while still being organized, which prevents me from trying to do thirty things every day. This is probably a good thing. Probably.
Given the roller coaster metaphor, you can probably guess where this is going. Today has been…not great. Not bad, all things considered, but not great. I was so tired I actually took a nap on the floor of a spare phone room at my coworking space. ^_^;; I did get some work on learning Python done, to try and keep on track with the deadlines I set. So that was good, but it’s also essentially the only thing I did.
Me at the SCENE OF THE CRIME.
I’ve also been thinking some more about how I use social media and the internet since I got back from Rainforest. The wonderful and terrible thing about Rainforest is that there’s almost zero internet availability, except very late at night or early in the morning. I mean, the credit card reader in the bar wouldn’t work when the general store across the street was closing out, since it was taking up the bandwidth the card reader needed to authorize the transaction. At one point, Lynx measured the download speed in Bits/Second. So yeah.
The thing is, having that little internet actually felt very nice. Well I very much missed my friends, I didn’t feel overloaded in the same way. I got a lot of reading done, too, since that became my new downtime automatic activity, instead of webcomics and social media. There has to be a balance between internet hermitude and mental overload, but I’m still trying to figure out what that’ll look like for me. I think it might even the roller coaster out a little bit, and I know I’d like that very much.
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