May 24, 2000
Caught Up
Are there any other two words in the English language that sound so sweet together? Right now, the answer to that would be 'no'. It's no great surprise to anyone who knows me, but I'm a horrible procrastinator. All of the problems in my life right now were caused by my procrastination. I figured this out in the therapy session I was in Friday. Well, it wasn't actually therapy really, so much as an evaluation. So this is me, trying to cut down on the procrastinating.Thing is, before I can do that, I have to get caught up. This will take some doing, but I'm doing it a little bit at a time. As of today, I'm completely caught up on all my projects at work. And believe me, I've worked my ass off getting here. I'm pretty proud of myself right now. Thirty-two hours of data entry in three days. Well, less than that, actually, because I'm almost done right now, and I doubt I'll be working on it until the time I go home tonight. Trust me. That's a lot of data entry in three days. I'm tiiiiired of looking at spreadsheets.
And, needless to say, I haven't done much work on my book at all, for those of you keeping up with that. I'm still working on the last two stories, which are having a difficult time coming from my brain. Granted, that's probably because my brain has been stuffed with numbers and spreadsheets over the past several days. And because I've been so tired. The plan now is to have the book outline to the editor by Friday. It's possible, but I'm thinking Monday is more likely at this point.
I am terribly optimistic right now. I don't know why. For all the good stuff I've got going on with my writing and recovery, there's a boatload of crappy things that are going on in my life too. But today, and for the past several days, it hasn't seemed to matter. I suppose it's partly because I'm starting to dig myself out of my hole. I'll let you know when I reach the top.
Lastly, all of you should go read KT's latest entry, if you haven't already. Stories like this are what make reading other people's journals really worthwhile. It just proves how closely linked truth and fiction can be.
Posted by Lisa at May 24, 2000 03:39 PM
