Do you ever feel like that? There are just too many interesting things in the world to read and to learn about, and, though I read constantly, my list just keeps growing. Here are the things I am working on now:
1. My classes: later 18th century Brit lit (currently Elizabeth Carter and William Cowper) and Historical Foundations of Rhetoric (currently dialogues by Plato)
2. Matilda by Roald Dahl
3. Ancient History lectures from Scott Powell
4. reviewing my ancient Greek
5. working on French and Spanish
6. The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper
7. Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
8. Some Charlaine Harris fan fic
9. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
10. A group of poems about Sewanee by Richard Tillinghast
11. all the parenting, nutrition, and Objectivist blogs I keep up with
12. working a parenting writing project
Holy crap! I think I am in over my head. But I like it. Who says I have to do one thing at once until I am finished. I'll never be finished, and I'll do a million things at once!
2 comments:
Have you read Getting Things Done yet, Kelly? I second the recommendation by Amy Peikoff in TOS.
Simply writing out the next action for each of my projects and having a list of which actions I can do most easily in each spot (@home, @cafe, etc) has improved my productivity immensely.
Here's a good and free 45 minute talk by its author (at Google), explaining some of the core contents of the book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo7vUdKTlhk
Daniel,
I will look into it. Jenn uses it too and speaks highly of it. But, I am afraid that it might make me feel kind of boxed in. I'm not a big planner, and sometimes, having a plan will make me not want to do something, even if it is something I like.
Kelly
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