Mind of Migg

Everything is back in business this week – kind of.  It’s difficult to get back into a work frame of mind – especially when there’s nobody to discipline me for slacking.  There’s still boxes to be unpacked, a new 2^nd bedroom office that is in serious need of organization, and a new routine to get into.  I’m trying to hold off on the cleaning and the organizing until the weekend to get some work done, but it’s been rough.  Add to that the fact that I was mainly focused on a wedding, slideshow, and talent show for a week, and then a week of napping and lounging in Santa Cruz, and you’ll understand why I can’t get myself motivated to work a whole day through.  On the bright side, I’m much more rested than I’ve been in a long time.

I’ll have a long post about the wedding, or maybe even break it into a couple posts.  Then I’ll do the same for the honeymoon.  In the meantime though, I wanted to vent about how tough it is to get things rolling after a two-week break.  I would make myself leave to a coffee shop to be productive, but that was because I didn’t have an office of my own.  Now that I do, I’m not doing a very good job of moving off the couch and to my desk.  I’d like to work from home more often until I find a job to save some money.  All those coffees and lunches out add up.  So I need to reestablish a work environment in my place.  I think I’m much more likely to find a job before that happens, but we’ll see.

Things in India are really taking off.  It’s an exciting time over there and it actually has me involved in stuff that has real deadlines, not ones made up in my iCal.  So that’s a start.  The biggest problem is that the one thing I did do during my two weeks off was read.  It was one of my summer goals to read more and I’ve kept it up.  But it’s easy to feel unproductive when I spend a couple hours reading each day.  It’s not like I can skip ahead in the book or script either.  That would defeat the entire purpose.

Then yesterday I came across a quote (technically a quote of a quote).  It was, “William Safire told me something that really helped: “Never feel guilty about reading.  That’s what you do.” – Peggy Noonan.  I read that and thought, “He’s absolutely right.”  I’m reading scripts much more efficiently now and am able to identify what makes them work or what doesn’t.  I’m also reading Studies in Classic American Literature by DH Lawrence and it’s blowing me away.  I’m also reading a couple short story books on the side as well.  At first I felt bad.  I thought I was being unproductive.  But then I considered that for one, I track reading hours in my timesheet and I’m staying productive in accomplishing that goal.  And two, all these books are making me a better writer and adding to my experience.  It’s not so bad.  So here’s to getting back on track and having a fresh start in many ways.  Cheers everyone.