We’ve been living in San Pablo for a little over two weeks now, and it’s driving me crazy how little art I’ve made in that time. Actually this is only to be expected, since we spent about a week of this time being miserably sick, but now that I’m recovered and we’re mostly settled in, my lack of productivity is sending me up the wall. I’m not spending as much time on the computer as I used to be, so that’s not it… it’s housework that’s become my new procrastination tool of choice. Today this work-home imbalance upset me so much that I initiated a discussion with Erik about it after dinner, and we’ve come up with the following experiment for tomorrow: no housework until after lunch. This is because I was complaining that the afternoon is a dead period, when I feel both physically tired and mentally sluggish. So tomorrow I’ll try doing work when I feel most awake — the period between getting up and eating lunch — and not waste that time in household chores or food preparation, instead saving those tedious tasks for that natural downtime in the afternoon. We’ll see how it goes.
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