A Late Gig Bist

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I woke up and did a very mellow yoga session, had some porridge. I felt a bit bitter and defensive, not sure why, feeling vulnerable for some reason.

A great big list.

Yesterday I wrote a big list of things in my bullet journal, a bit of a brain dump. I think it might be interesting to write them down here.

• Hungry the Pit - the zine I want to make for zinefest.
• dinner - you have got to eat.
• CS study - having resolved myself to study CS I need to set up a schedule and way of tracking my progress.
• Portugues - Still doing weekly lessons, still want to learn. Beyond that, I'd like to start tracking where I'm at and where I want to go with it.
• S/A plans - I want to put some structure to my South America plans.
• Repair pants - my jeans have a rip, I want to path it up at some point.
• Write draft article - I'd like to write an essay for the Path towards Form meetup.
• R.H redesign finish - I want to finalise the R.H redesign and implement it
• x journal build - "x" because I did it last night
• food - not sure, maybe I forgot I'd written dinner above
• "having come his far" review - I'd like to go over the last month and a half and review where I'm at regarding my time off and the path ahead.
• sell DESK!!!!! - I really need to sell that desk
• Think about routines - low bar here
• Print off picture for frame - I bought an ikea photo frame recently, I want to print off a pic to go in it.

I find it hard to organise my time, and hard to get things done. Things feel nebulous, I struggle to make them clear and divide them into concrete actions; and even when I do I struggle with procrastination.

I've got a week ahead of me, with things to do, and it's a four day weekend. How do I put these tasks into real time? Something I've done occasionally, and had moderate success with, is giving them time estimates, and then slotting those into my day/week.

I wont always do this in this journal, but it's interesting to type it out here today, I reckon.

• Hungry the Pit

  • Exploration and research phase
    • 2 hours of visual research (books)
    • 3 hours to begin with of sketching (both paper and 3d)

• Dinner

  • 1 hour shopping
  • 1 or 2 hours cooking

• CS study

  • 2 hours typing up course structure and planning routine

• Portuguese

  • 10 min a day practice
  • 1 hour a week practice
  • 1 hour to plan study better

• Repair pants

  • 1 hour
    • cut denim from old pair - 5 min
    • sew patch - 50min

• Write article

  • Response to Separation in the Evening by Paul Klee
  • 1 hour to read tips on personal essay writing and art response writing
  • 1 hour to write draft
  • 1 hour to edit

• R.H design site

  • 1 hour to finish design
  • 1 hour to code

• Sell desk

  • 45min to clean, take photos, list them on gumtree

• Think about routines

  • 45min in the morning, as journal entry

• Print off photo for frame

  • 30min to pick and print photo

Thats 20 hours 10 minutes.

I haven't got a decent time tracking system done yet, so this is a guess, but I think I spend about 3 hours each morning doing routine things: Yoga, breakfast, journal, shower, vocab. I probably, at this stage, only spend about 4 hours a day doing anything that looks like work. If I stick to this plan I've set above, I should be able to get everything done this week. I suppose this is where I'll learn - I can track the estimated task times against their actual time and see where I land.

Ok that's enough writing for today, let's wrap up.

listening to

the ongoing sounds of construction outside my room, and skylab radio

what else?

• @Giles, you might like this project - Boats for my Son
• I've been inspired by this quote from Walden lately (haven't actually read the book, just the wikipedia article)

  "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

• I've been meaning to check out RunningDog in my spare time ¹
  • 1. Attempting pomodoro, 5 min breaks can be good for a little reading, a little surfing the web.

¿¿¿Questions???

• How can I be more present in the moment?
• Is it too soon to cook the fish soup again? (no)