Warming Up

Saturday 5th April 2003

The dead-line for my the completion of my book has been extended until June 1st. This is a bit of a relief as I think I would have had trouble completing it in the next 19 days, but itÂ’s bad news in some ways as I was gearing up to at least give it a try and now the lazy part of my brain (which is a significant majority. It is my belief that lazy brain cells never die) is thinking I can take it easy.
So although I was supposed to work today I mainly sat around playing backgammon on my gameboy or reading the newspaper.
But because I knew I should be working I didnÂ’t feel I was able to go out and do something fun with other human beings. That would be to publicly acknowledge my laziness, so as long as I stayed in my hotel room and did nothing I was at least closer to getting some work done.
It feels wrong that I am on the other side of the world, in a country with wonderful weather and I am stuck inside failing to buckle down.
But the wastefulness has made me determined to not be so pathetic for the next couple of days. I am going to finish chapter 3, which IÂ’ve been (largely avoiding) working on for over a month, by the end of Monday. This will mean working hard but is by no means impossible. Then I can reward myself with a usefully spent day of sight-seeing or socialising.
ThatÂ’s the theory anyway. IÂ’ll let you know how it goes.