What is it about August? Is it the heat, the humidity, that just saps away motivation and ambition?
Newport is incredibly full of end-of-summer vacationers trying frantically to relax before the kids are back in school. I can see it in their faces: an urgent need to maintain the schedule of fun, to Fit It All In.
Danielle and I have been on a vacation of our own. Danielle’s mom (’Hi Cheryl!’) was in town last weekend, and our friend Nancy (’Hi Nancy!’) celebrated her birthday with us yesterday. We’ve been spending our weekdays with Hulu and Netflix. In the evenings, more often than not, we gave up on trying to work because we couldn’t focus (so we watched more TV).
We’re instituting a new regimen starting tomorrow: work during the day during Sean’s naps and watch TV at night. Genius, isn’t it?
3 responses so far ↓
1 JA3 // Aug 25, 2008 at 6:34 am
Beware! This is where our Year of Bliss turned into our Year of Getting Hopelessly Behind on Our Goals, Further Sapping Motivation and Preventing Us from Enjoying Ourselves Because of the Ever-Looming Threat of Unfinished Work.
Despite the ominous title, it’s still better than DH School, so savor it.
2 NanMel // Aug 25, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Hi!
And I think it’s genius. It is so genius, I may adopt it myself. Just let me know when Sean takes his naps!!
3 tlitchfo // Aug 25, 2008 at 9:15 pm
It was kind of crazy when I realized that there were days when I ‘worked’ for a grand total of 2 hours. Unless you count surfing the InterWeb as work, which you sort of can, if you’re a Writer who’s doing Research. (Nance, you can totally justify that as a Filmmaker.)
John, I’m going to do my best to heed your warning! I do not want the Year of Bliss to turn into the Year of Getting Hopelessly Behind on Our Goals, Further Sapping Motivation and Preventing Us from Enjoying Ourselves Because of the Ever-Looming Threat of Unfinished Work.
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