I got home from Fiji late Sunday night / early Monday morning and more or less collapsed onto my bed as soon as I walked in the door. The trip was interesting and I did accomplish my primary objective of seeing what it was like working on an archaeological dig. However, I also got sick, which combined with sleep deprivation probably made me fairly unpleasant to be around. And I had a very scary moment when the corrugated tin pieces of the shed roof flew right at me during the cyclone. Only my shoulder got hit and I was uninjured, but it was a definite "oh my G-d" moment. I will, eventually, write it all up.
But I have given myself permission to be lazy for the rest of January. I spent much of the week doing little but sleeping. I paid the bills that were due right away and I've opened most (but not yet all) of the mail from when I was gone. I've more or less caught up at work, but that's taken most of the energy I had.
There's nothing actually wrong. I just need some unpressured time. February is close enough and I can worry then about finishing hanging pictures and doing the annual shredding and filing and entering projects into ravelry and updating my library thing catalogue and so on and so on.
My commitment today was to the Voices annual business meeting and I did take on some additional responsibility there, namely offering to take a stab at handling newspaper publicity for our events. I also offered to provide some content for our web page and to take photos at the minifest next weekend. Which is, by the way, at the Takoma Park Middle School on Saturday should anybody be interested in hearing good storytelling (and music and dance). I do also have to spend some time preparing for that, mostly by timing the new story I will be telling there and deciding what else to tell.
February is soon enough for other things.
Copyright 2007 Miriam H. Nadel