mmmm, bed!
Dec. 30th, 2007 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vulgarweedI just slept for 12 hours. Man, that felt good!
Now, entering into a three-day weekend (mine starts on Sunday these days) I look around at my apartment and think, hmmmm.
Could use a good cleaning, eh?
The bane of neat freaks and good housekeepers everywhere is people they might live with who don't clean because they "just don't see clutter." Hard as it is for the Felixes of the world to understand, this is not a lie or an excuse. I'm one of those people, and it's true. My attention is just usually elsewhere (mmmm, porn!), and the immediate physical surroundings of where I live every day are sort of white-noise of the mind that I just don't notice anymore after I've settled in. Sort of like the way you don't really notice someone you live with gradually losing or gaining weight, but if you hadn't seen the same person in six months, whoa!
There's always that day I wake up and think, "hmmmm," though. (Another thing about us Oscars--when we do clean, we prefer to be rewarded with the sight of a dramatic improvement for our work, so we like to let things ripen to a point where the "before" and "after" scenes will be amazingly different even to our inferior sensitivities.)
Also, G is the only person who visits me with any regularity, so the realization that he's not going to be navigating my spiral staircase for quite a few weeks yet has led to a certain relaxation of standards. That were already pretty relaxed. (After seeing his place, I will no longer even humor any suggestions that I was the slobby one.)
Now, mind you, I don't tolerate unsanitary conditions (anymore). I wash dishes, I take out trash, I scrub bathroom fixtures. There's a big delineation in my mind between crud that is "clean" (books, CDs, boxes, bags, laundry wandered off in that stage between "dragged up stairs" and "put away") and "unclean" (organic stuff that could stink or draw bugs or just be gross). Only one is important.
So I guess the question is, will I clean, or will I write fic? (Got three WIPs active; two GO, one HP) Or will I poke at both half-assedly?
Now, entering into a three-day weekend (mine starts on Sunday these days) I look around at my apartment and think, hmmmm.
Could use a good cleaning, eh?
The bane of neat freaks and good housekeepers everywhere is people they might live with who don't clean because they "just don't see clutter." Hard as it is for the Felixes of the world to understand, this is not a lie or an excuse. I'm one of those people, and it's true. My attention is just usually elsewhere (mmmm, porn!), and the immediate physical surroundings of where I live every day are sort of white-noise of the mind that I just don't notice anymore after I've settled in. Sort of like the way you don't really notice someone you live with gradually losing or gaining weight, but if you hadn't seen the same person in six months, whoa!
There's always that day I wake up and think, "hmmmm," though. (Another thing about us Oscars--when we do clean, we prefer to be rewarded with the sight of a dramatic improvement for our work, so we like to let things ripen to a point where the "before" and "after" scenes will be amazingly different even to our inferior sensitivities.)
Also, G is the only person who visits me with any regularity, so the realization that he's not going to be navigating my spiral staircase for quite a few weeks yet has led to a certain relaxation of standards. That were already pretty relaxed. (After seeing his place, I will no longer even humor any suggestions that I was the slobby one.)
Now, mind you, I don't tolerate unsanitary conditions (anymore). I wash dishes, I take out trash, I scrub bathroom fixtures. There's a big delineation in my mind between crud that is "clean" (books, CDs, boxes, bags, laundry wandered off in that stage between "dragged up stairs" and "put away") and "unclean" (organic stuff that could stink or draw bugs or just be gross). Only one is important.
So I guess the question is, will I clean, or will I write fic? (Got three WIPs active; two GO, one HP) Or will I poke at both half-assedly?
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Date: 2007-12-31 03:24 am (UTC)If you write fic, words stay fixed on the page. Net gain = total number of words written.
Clearly, you should write fic! There's no point in arguing with a mathematical proof. ;-)