Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "time"
Too Busy But...
I suppose everyone busy doing something has the same complaint. There never seem to be enough hours in a day. Actually there are. We just try to over schedule. Or waste some of the time we do have.
My website is normally lots of fun to do. I write a couple of fast commentaries and set up (and do) a science project each week.
This week I am putting the first part of "The Pumpkin Project" up for subscription so time is tight. So why did I set up a long science project? And whatever possessed me to do a poem for one of the commentaries?
I must be mad!
The science project really took only a couple of hours to set up when I finally got up the nerve to start it. Part of that was time to clean up the stove. The project included making rock candy and the sugar syrup boiled over when I looked away for five seconds.
After that it was a matter of waiting, watching and hoping the rock candy would form. I should know by now, having tried this a couple of other times, that I am doomed. The rock candy forms anywhere but on the dangled string.
I'm expecting the first hummingbirds any day. They can eat the remains of rock candy after I dissolve it off the bottom of the jar.
And the poem? The pictures are ready. The poem is two or three stanzas from done. It will need rewriting eventually as the meter isn't quite right yet.
"The Pumpkin Project?" It's ready to debut, I think. The PDF is done after arguing with the computer about margins. The Introduction and Project 1 with pictures are ready.
There really was enough time. Things did get almost done. I even finished up the two new Investigations in Part 2 of "The Pumpkin Project" due out in a couple of weeks.
Maybe the problem isn't the amount of time. Maybe the problem is stressing out about the time which is itself a waste of time. Maybe someday I will learn this and quit stressing. Maybe.
My website is normally lots of fun to do. I write a couple of fast commentaries and set up (and do) a science project each week.
This week I am putting the first part of "The Pumpkin Project" up for subscription so time is tight. So why did I set up a long science project? And whatever possessed me to do a poem for one of the commentaries?
I must be mad!
The science project really took only a couple of hours to set up when I finally got up the nerve to start it. Part of that was time to clean up the stove. The project included making rock candy and the sugar syrup boiled over when I looked away for five seconds.
After that it was a matter of waiting, watching and hoping the rock candy would form. I should know by now, having tried this a couple of other times, that I am doomed. The rock candy forms anywhere but on the dangled string.
I'm expecting the first hummingbirds any day. They can eat the remains of rock candy after I dissolve it off the bottom of the jar.
And the poem? The pictures are ready. The poem is two or three stanzas from done. It will need rewriting eventually as the meter isn't quite right yet.
"The Pumpkin Project?" It's ready to debut, I think. The PDF is done after arguing with the computer about margins. The Introduction and Project 1 with pictures are ready.
There really was enough time. Things did get almost done. I even finished up the two new Investigations in Part 2 of "The Pumpkin Project" due out in a couple of weeks.
Maybe the problem isn't the amount of time. Maybe the problem is stressing out about the time which is itself a waste of time. Maybe someday I will learn this and quit stressing. Maybe.
