Procrastination NATION

Hey ya’ll.  I’m loving reading everyone’s stuff!  So happy to hear from so many.  I am posting this because I am procrastinating, but also because I want to test out the e-mail thingy that Mer worked out.  Also, I can enter everyone’s emails as forwarding addresses for thetargetcrosscountry@gmail.com so that you can know when comment are posted and what not.  If you aren’t into more email and just want to check in every so often, just ignore the request to become a forwarding address.  Cool?  Cool. 

The biggest thing of note in my life is, this weekend, I will be fulfilling a lifelong dream and having a “pool” party for my birthday.  I’m really going camping by the beach, but in Kentucky, a February birthday bars you from any sort of water related fun.  There will be ocean, beer, smores, and we might get muffed up (but in chocolate chip cookie form).  I’m sure I will fill you guys in on that soon. 

I’ve been taking a page out of Mer’s book and making mad to-do lists.  For your amusement, here is my day in list form.

Things I should be doing:

1. Working on the two grants I will be submitting in February.

Grant writing is my all time favorite thing to procrastinate.  It’s like anything, once I get over the inertia of not doing it, it comes really easy.  It’s just opening the freaking application document and putting my name in the blank that is so hard.  Why is that so hard?

2. Doing reading for my classes

My professor assigned us to tomes to read.  These papers are HUGE!  Also, I’d like to point out that this man has a full time professor position, three graduate students, two small children, and a puppy.  I feel he should be intimately acquainted with business. 

3. Trying to make maps for my field work in t-minus a week and a half

I’m actually excited about this one; I just don’t really know what to do yet.  I took a class last semester all about this map making software on the computer (GIS:  Geographic Information Systems).  It’s an awesome tool and so helpful to me in my project.  But like any cool computer programs, it takes awhile to figure out what you REALLY want to do, and you spend hours doing things you only kind of wanted to do. 

NOTE:  I really do love my work and all that I am doing!  It’s just like anything that is hard/ worthwhile, resistance is acting on you hard to keep you from getting your shit done.  What is “resistance?”  It’s the force in the universe that encourages you to act against your best interests.  It keeps you from getting up when the alarm goes off or writing even though you know you’re gifted.  It pushes us in the wrong direction.  Check out “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield.  JD gave it to me for graduation, and it’s all about this topic. 

Things I’ve done post getting home:

1. Eat (necessary)

I’ve been on a big cooking trip lately.  But I’m at that point where I need to eat the random stuff in my fridge.  Enter brown rice, lentils, and pasta sauce.  Noms.

2. Shower (also necessary)

 I was out in the marsh this morning, then went to spin class.  I smelled way sketchy.  Want to know what going to work looks like for me?  Check the pic. 

3. Change the turtle filter

Always an adventure, but not really worthy of elaboration. 

4. Looked at recipes I want to make on this blog fatfreevegan.com (This is my new favorite cooking blog.)

5. Creepily watch my roommate (who is a painter) paint, but she thinks I’m working, but I’m really creepily watching her.

Okay, off to do the things I should be doing....or watch NetFlix....

Peace! ~Rach Wigg