It’s April, and the academic year’s almost over, but I find myself in the need of restarting it entirely. Carefully constructed plans for a productive year were laid to waste through missteps of my own making (procrastination, getting sidetracked with the usual distractions, etc.), but mainly circumstances beyond my control, involving close family members becoming (one less surprisingly, another very unexpectedly) gravely, catastrophically ill. I’ve spent just as much time this year out of than in New York. Still, things are settling down and April’s been a quiet month so far, and it’s allowed me to get some thing in order, though I’ve not done more than file my taxes, return library books, and finish up volume 6 and 7 of Harry Potter. That’s a good enough (re)start, I suppose, but I should start setting the bar a bit higher.
Restarting the year
April 13, 2009 by Andrew
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Good luck with the re-start. FWIW, and not that this would help to have changed those circumstances beyond your control, but PL has some good resources on work flow management. That I willfully ignore.
you’re back! hooray for all of us followers…. i’m a little bit all over the place these days but lemme know if you’re down to get dinner sometime [pear carpaccio] :0) i’ll be in the city for a bit. ttyl…
don’t underestimate the enormity of filing your taxes! i did mine and then proceeded to get wasted on donuts for the rest of the day.
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