A Modest Accomplishment
Amazingly, those items on my to-do lists keep getting crossed off. It takes me longer to get things done than I think it ought to, and I tend to get impatient with myself. In times like these, two things come in very handy. One is keeping those completed lists on my desk for a few extra days, so I can remind myself of how much I have actually accomplished. The other is to remember what it was like working for other people.
When I did administrative work, it was nearly impossible to complete any major task because there were constant distractions, both from my employers and from other employees. The same to-do list that I nearly completed this week in my own office would have taken me twice or three times as long to get through, if I were still working for someone else.
Still, the writing suffers. Every task that I can possibly think of comes before I sit down to write. I know that eventually I will just have to knuckle under and do it, but meanwhile I did manage to do one writing-related task. I found all the blog posts I have written here about Reclaiming, and created a page which lists them all.
I have amassed quite a collection of Reclaiming posts, as it turns out, and it was kind of fun to sort them all out and add commentary to each one. The beauty of writing, of course, is being able to control the narrative of any given event. In this task I was also able to dictate the meta-narrative, which is even more thrilling.
So while this isn’t an earth-shattering post by any means, at least it will serve to alert friends and foes of Reclaiming that there is now, over on the sidebar just below the blogroll, a helpful index of all my supportive, and not-so-supportive, comments from the past few years. That should be worth at least an afternoon of procrastination for anyone working in an office or, Goddess forbid, on writing projects of your own.