I really wish my brain were better at switching between tasks. It's driving me a little bit nuts.
Part of the problem is that the things I need to do over the next month or so include:
- Information for Learner's Permit
- Start knitting a 9-foot-long scarf
- Reading Hard Times, which is an excruciatingly boring Dickens novel I am reading in preparation for Welcome to Hard Times, just in case it might be relevant; what I have learned thus far is that Dickens knew nothing about mathematics, having pretty much set upon himself to write an authorial tract explaining why no one should be obligated to learn either a. arithmetic or b. logical, precise thinking. I understand his complaints, but he went waaaay too far with his opinion.
- Fixing my bike up to ride it
- Start nepotistical data entry job for my father (transcribing interviews with lumberjacks, basically), because the pay is good and I'm saving to spend a year in Berkeley taking graduate courses
- Bunch of sewing projects I've been waiting on for more than 3 years - cell phone case, apron, resizing an amazing vest, making a throw pillow out of an old shirt
- Cleaning out my closet, because I've got too much clothing and don't wear, or even want to wear, maybe half of it (my body type changed, my tastes changed, and now that I'm not mentally ill anymore I've stopped being such a hoarder). Like, how many pairs of shorts do I have? Waaaaaay too many.
- Finish mending the clothes I decide to keep
- Building a curriculum and teaching classes for my job/portfolio
It's all just so boring. The most of a real intellectual workout I'm getting right now is playing Portal 2, which has some legitimately difficult parts, but I'm almost done with it. I mean, sure, all of the to-do list has to be done, but I've learned enough about lesson planning that it's no longer hard, and mostly what I have to work on is learning to be more assertive.
It's all stuff I want to do, it's all stuff I need to do, and I'm doing it in as much concentration as I can bear because fuck it, I don't want to spend any more time being bored than I have to. But it's really not very enjoyable, sitting around and watching driving education videos while stitching some interminable piece of fabric together.
Also not doing a good job of distracting me from my little jealousy problems anymore, which worked for about a week.
*sigh*
I'll get through it. I got a ludicrous amount of work done this weekend, and I'll get even more done through the work week.
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