Maintenance
Aug. 14th, 2003 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanI am extremely abashed and pleased at the kind responses to my last whiny post, both in comments and in email.
And the discussion of L.M. Montgomery and of comfort books is marvellous.
A bit before I posted that entry, I bethought me that even though the national and international situations are enough to make any person of sense at least briefly contemplate jumping off a cliff; and that even though my career is tottering and my personal life about to suffer a dislocation and my finances not worth speaking of for a moment, my reaction to all this still seemed a bit off. So, I thought, exercise? Well, no, not for a few days. Fresh vegetables? Well, only very intermittently. Vitamins? Well, no, not for a few weeks.
So I snagged somebody's B-complex (we're out of multivitamins) and made some curried okra and some potatoes with spinach (working on the principal of using up vegetables that weren't getting any fresher) and grimly started my daily walks up, despite the icky weather.
That helped a bunch. In consequence of all this and a late-night conversation with Eric, I wrote 700 words on the Liavek novel. So, I stick my tongue out in the universe's general direction.
Pamela
And the discussion of L.M. Montgomery and of comfort books is marvellous.
A bit before I posted that entry, I bethought me that even though the national and international situations are enough to make any person of sense at least briefly contemplate jumping off a cliff; and that even though my career is tottering and my personal life about to suffer a dislocation and my finances not worth speaking of for a moment, my reaction to all this still seemed a bit off. So, I thought, exercise? Well, no, not for a few days. Fresh vegetables? Well, only very intermittently. Vitamins? Well, no, not for a few weeks.
So I snagged somebody's B-complex (we're out of multivitamins) and made some curried okra and some potatoes with spinach (working on the principal of using up vegetables that weren't getting any fresher) and grimly started my daily walks up, despite the icky weather.
That helped a bunch. In consequence of all this and a late-night conversation with Eric, I wrote 700 words on the Liavek novel. So, I stick my tongue out in the universe's general direction.
Pamela
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 11:48 am (UTC)I come from an exceptionally bloody-minded and pig-headed family, so I appreciate what's involved in defiantly standing up when the universe seems to want you to lie down and let it stomp you flat. Go you!
And, yeah, eating right, exercising, getting enough rest ... it's very annoying of the brain to be hooked up to a body that needs those things. I've been grumbling for weeks that I could be so much more productive if I didn't have to do this stupid sleep thing.
no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 01:16 pm (UTC)Thanks for the kind words.
Pamela
no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-16 10:58 am (UTC)Pamela
no subject
Date: 2003-08-16 08:46 pm (UTC)