{"id":6635,"date":"2011-12-08T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6635"},"modified":"2011-12-08T16:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T23:03:14","slug":"am-i-swamped-or-am-i-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/am-i-swamped-or-am-i-lazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I swamped, or am I lazy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post might get a little emo, so I apologize in advance.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I have so much on my plate right now, and yet when I look back at what I&#8217;ve accomplished each day, I wonder if I couldn&#8217;t have been more productive.\u00a0 I&#8217;m moving out of my apartment on the 21st, so that&#8217;s the deadline for pretty much everything, and here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got to do before then:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run through the copy edits for <strong>Desert Stars<\/strong> and rewrite the epilogue.<\/li>\n<li>Get the cover art and publish <strong>Desert Stars<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Write the epilogue for <strong>Journey to Jordan<\/strong> and publish it.<\/li>\n<li>Finish <strong>Star Wanderers<\/strong> and submit to Writers of the Future.<\/li>\n<li>Do a guest post for Slava Heretz.<\/li>\n<li>Finish the application for the TLG program.<\/li>\n<li>Get rid of all my remaining books.<\/li>\n<li>Figure out electronic W2 and other forms for taxes (before leaving in January).<\/li>\n<li>Write up the &#8220;About My Books&#8221; page on blog.<\/li>\n<li>Do a couple of recap posts on the travel blog.<\/li>\n<li>Pack and ship my desktop computer.<\/li>\n<li>Pack all my remaining stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Get post office to forward all mail to home address.<\/li>\n<li>Clean apartment for move-out inspection.<\/li>\n<li>Find suitable traveler&#8217;s insurance.<\/li>\n<li>Go clothes shopping.<\/li>\n<li>Half a dozen other things that I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve forgotten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, this is <em>not<\/em> the time to be playing minecraft.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, taken individually, most of these tasks are not all that difficult.\u00a0 A lot of them are just mindless chores associated with moving, and the other ones, while requiring hard work, are pretty straightforward.\u00a0 So am I really swamped, or am I just disorganized and lazy?<\/p>\n<p>This is something I&#8217;ve struggled with since graduating last year.\u00a0 When I was in school, I was constantly busy, but I was also constantly producing.\u00a0 Even though my writing suffered a bit when I was swamped, I still found time to write three novels (<strong>Ashes of the Starry Sea, Genesis Earth, <\/strong>and <strong>Bringing Stella Home<\/strong>) and hold down a student job.\u00a0 For the last year, I haven&#8217;t had any school and most of the time I haven&#8217;t had a job, and yet my productivity doesn&#8217;t seem to have improved.<\/p>\n<p>Part of it has to do with structuring time and organizing myself.\u00a0 In the past year, I&#8217;ve learned that a routine isn&#8217;t something you should hang onto doggedly, but something you need to constantly reinvent.\u00a0 And yet, when I&#8217;m staying up until 2am-3am and not getting up until 8am-9am, I can&#8217;t help but feel that something&#8217;s off.\u00a0 The whole moving limbo thing certainly doesn&#8217;t help, but hey, the work&#8217;s still got to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just deer in the headlights syndrome.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try making a checklist of everything I want to accomplish in the next two weeks and go for it.\u00a0 In the meantime, I&#8217;m going to get out of this apartment and take a walk, because if I don&#8217;t, I&#8217;m going to go <em>insane.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also, as a token of gratitude for putting up with my babbling, here&#8217;s something cool I made the other day:<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZJa5fjOYIA0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See you around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post might get a little emo, so I apologize in advance. I feel like I have so much on my plate right now, and yet when I look back at what I&#8217;ve accomplished each day, I wonder if I couldn&#8217;t have been more productive.\u00a0 I&#8217;m moving out of my apartment on the 21st, so&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/am-i-swamped-or-am-i-lazy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Am I swamped, or am I lazy?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,44,32,857],"tags":[120,42,259,150,4,268,566],"class_list":["post-6635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ds","category-ge","category-sw","tag-daily-routine","tag-frustrations","tag-just-for-fun","tag-music","tag-the-lost-colony","tag-time-management","tag-trance","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1J1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6640,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}