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Too busy? Me?

05 Monday Mar 2018

Posted by toearlyretirement in Music, My Journey

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Busyness, Destrends, Holidays, life, live music, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Music, Saying no, Sydney Road Street Party, Writing

I read an interesting article on the saying no to the Cult of Busyness yesterday. It advocates doing only one thing at a time, and I can’t say I’m completely on board with that, but I do think that our society undervalues down-time.

I’m particularly bad at this, juggling a few competing priorities; social contact, work, creative activities, outings and rest time. I have a bunch of projects on the go, including a couple of writing projects, two music projects, and one theatre project. I like to get as much value as I can out of my time, but last night as I lay in bed not sleeping I felt oppressed by the sheer number of balls I was trying to keep in the air. It doesn’t help that my day job is particularly busy at the moment either.

I will be able to take a bit over a week off around Easter, partly because I am working a bit more in the lead up to our big assessment. I’ve arranged to go to a little cottage near Lake Eildon for four days, just on my own. I plan to go for walks, get coffee, eat out, write in my journal, read a nice book, and possibly get some ‘proper’ writing done.

I will never be able to do one thing at a time, that’s not my style. I think I operate well when I can give things time to stew in the back of my mind while I’m doing something else. I can get better at scheduling in times for resting, and exercising.

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Here is a photo of one of my favourite bands, a local Melbourne crew called Destrends, who I saw yesterday at the Sydney Road Street Party. Apologies for the quality of the photo, they kept moving (and I didn’t get the drummer, sorry Nathan). I’m glad I went, but after a really intense Saturday I didn’t have the energy to hang around and soak up the atmosphere.

Once work is less busy, I’ll be heading to some Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows, and getting stuck into a week off! While I’m doing that I’ll practice saying no to (some) things.

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School Holiday Projects

30 Friday Mar 2012

Posted by toearlyretirement in Art, My Journey, Writing

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Competition, Holidays, Inspiration, Photography, Projects, Short Stories, Writing

Some of you may know that the hospitality job I have is working in a school, as a result I have no work over the school holidays (which started today) – this is both a good and bad thing. Good in the sense that I will have lots of time to devote to artistic projects, and bad in the sense where I have no money for two weeks.

I have been reading on one of the blogs I follow about some awesome sounding short story competitions coming up in the next 3 months or so. There are quite a few there that look interesting and I am hoping to submit something to all of them (yes I’m even going to have a crack at the novella one but I’ve never written 15,000 words so we’ll treat that more as an experiment than anything).

My task over the next two weeks is to blog, write first drafts of all of my submissions, go on a day trip with fellow photographer friend Wade to Ballarat (negotiable) to get some awesome nature shots and catch up/get ahead on some of my uni homework.

I would encourage others to also submit things to some of these competitions; I would be happy to work with you on your drafts if you would return the favour. I am excited mostly by the idea of being ‘forced’ to write something in parameters; I find parameters are good for my creativity because otherwise I stare at the blank page for hours.

So who’s in?

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