(Pre)Occupations
May. 15th, 2020 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinToday I have been:
What I have not been is a comics artist, although I am about to become an apologetic subspecies of one. It usually takes one day to take a page from rough sketch to final lines; p.102 is the first I have done in a while and it took four. Yesterday I stared at p.103 for quite a long time and didn't make a mark. The good news is, I am running out of things to do around the house; the bad news is, I may still need some more things to do around the house. But I should find more on-task displacement activities. Sweeping the drive (a task which took over an hour before I even started, as it necessitated walking to the next town [30 min] queuing at the hardware store [10 min] sending the store attendant to find the things I needed, including the broom [5 min] and walking back again [30min]) may be a good combination of head-clearing physical exercise and time to think, but it's not getting me anything but a slightly tidier drive.
But it's past 5pm now, so I might as well finish the day as I started ...
- a minister
- a secretary
- a housemaid
- a naturalist
- a merchant
- a hornet shepherdess
- a gardener
- a lumberjack
- an explorer
- a botanist
- a neighbour
- a photographer
- an archaeologist
- a cook
What I have not been is a comics artist, although I am about to become an apologetic subspecies of one. It usually takes one day to take a page from rough sketch to final lines; p.102 is the first I have done in a while and it took four. Yesterday I stared at p.103 for quite a long time and didn't make a mark. The good news is, I am running out of things to do around the house; the bad news is, I may still need some more things to do around the house. But I should find more on-task displacement activities. Sweeping the drive (a task which took over an hour before I even started, as it necessitated walking to the next town [30 min] queuing at the hardware store [10 min] sending the store attendant to find the things I needed, including the broom [5 min] and walking back again [30min]) may be a good combination of head-clearing physical exercise and time to think, but it's not getting me anything but a slightly tidier drive.
But it's past 5pm now, so I might as well finish the day as I started ...
