Comments on: how one can tell that I am teaching more than before

By: Susanne

Susanne — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:35:11 +0000

Thanks for all your comments. I have to admit that I cheated a bit. These pictures were taken the week before. So for now everything's been taken care of, apart from the ironing and I'm seriously contemplating letting my guests have crumply napkins.

You all did right concentrating on the fun things. The problem I have is not the things waiting to be done but that when I have done them there instantly forms a line of still more things to do after them. That's life I think. I read an organisational book that said everybody has about 70 to 100 unfinished projcts all the time and I thought, "Thank God! I'm not the only one." This guy said the important thing is not to get everything done but to feel good about the things that are still waiting.

Beck, thanks for the link.

Adrian, I used to be like that and in a way still am. But I found that a lifestyle like this needs days or weeks of regeneration, and my life is more like a marathon than like a series of sprints. So I have to pace myself going on and on and on. Busyness doesn't help to find the space for creativity. It only makes me feel needed and important.

By: Susanne

Susanne — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:35:00 +0000

By: De Aufiero

De Aufiero — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:07:37 +0000

We did nothing BUT fun things together. Well, that and the grocery shopping, but that was still together. Today we went to the Mystic Aquarium and I got to pet some kind of Ray. It was very soft.

By: De Aufiero

De Aufiero — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:07:00 +0000

We did nothing BUT fun things together. Well, that and the grocery shopping, but that was still together. Today we went to the Mystic Aquarium and I got to pet some kind of Ray. It was very soft.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:53:23 +0000

I love being busy. It makes me rush around and do things quickly without procrastinating as much as I usually do. Even if some things get left undone, being too busy still gives me the feeling that I’m not wasting any time.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:53:00 +0000

By: Beck

Beck — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:52:23 +0000

My house will have to wait in vain – good luck with yours!
I fixed my link to the awards site, by the way. I had it on an older link where I wasn’t mentioned. Because I am dumb like that.

By: Beck

Beck — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:52:00 +0000

My house will have to wait in vain – good luck with yours!
I fixed my link to the awards site, by the way. I had it on an older link where I wasn’t mentioned. Because I am dumb like that.

By: Her Bad Mother

Her Bad Mother — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:13:37 +0000

There’s a lot of waiting at our house, too – laundry waiting, dishes waiting, waiting, waiting. It will have to wait, tho’, because there is snow, and we need to play.

By: Her Bad Mother

Her Bad Mother — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:13:00 +0000

There’s a lot of waiting at our house, too – laundry waiting, dishes waiting, waiting, waiting. It will have to wait, tho’, because there is snow, and we need to play.

By: jen

jen — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:37:59 +0000

i love this post, but mostly because you shared glimpses of your home w/ us.

great congas, sister.

By: jen

jen — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:37:00 +0000

i love this post, but mostly because you shared glimpses of your home w/ us.

great congas, sister.

By: meno

meno — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:32:02 +0000

I think this is a great post. It makes me think of all the things in my house/life that are waiting.

By: meno

meno — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:32:00 +0000

I think this is a great post. It makes me think of all the things in my house/life that are waiting.