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Jan. 7th, 2020 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeYou'd think, being as this is a predictable cycle, that I would have learned to avoid it by now. And yet you would be wrong.
The cycle is this: I wake up, I feel pretty good, maybe I feel better than I have in a few days. I have things to do. I launch myself into them, usually gnawing on something with a lot of sugar or caffeine (I have no idea how much caffeine is in dark chocolate but I suspect it's a lot), and I get a couple things done and make a plan to do twenty other things. I put that down to do something else. I pick up the list of twenty other things...
... and my brain goes into a tailspin and while I have a lot of energy, I cannot for the life of me figure out where to put it, direct it, or anything useful.
(I just looked up the caffeine content, and it's about 12mg per ounce as opposed to 95mg per cup of coffee, so not as bad. But it is the only caffeine I consume, and that probably makes a difference.)
I scheduled my first work update on the e-mail list today, which meant writing out all the things I'm working on. After that I had the brilliant idea of writing out all the things I need to do to upgrade my computer from Win7 to Win10, since Win7 is no longer going to be supported. Apart from wondering if I have to buy RAM or even a new freaking desktop computer, I now have a long list of files to sort out, backups to make, program keys to make sure I have, and so on and so forth. It's exhausting to think about, let alone look at the list while I get it done.
I did get my backups zipped and loaded today. I have a list of things to do, I got a lot of administrivia done at work. And though I didn't get any edits and very little written today, even on top of day job stuff I got myself lined up so I can just go through things when I get home. So that's good. Sugar- and caffeine-highs and subsequent lack of focus aside.
The cycle is this: I wake up, I feel pretty good, maybe I feel better than I have in a few days. I have things to do. I launch myself into them, usually gnawing on something with a lot of sugar or caffeine (I have no idea how much caffeine is in dark chocolate but I suspect it's a lot), and I get a couple things done and make a plan to do twenty other things. I put that down to do something else. I pick up the list of twenty other things...
... and my brain goes into a tailspin and while I have a lot of energy, I cannot for the life of me figure out where to put it, direct it, or anything useful.
(I just looked up the caffeine content, and it's about 12mg per ounce as opposed to 95mg per cup of coffee, so not as bad. But it is the only caffeine I consume, and that probably makes a difference.)
I scheduled my first work update on the e-mail list today, which meant writing out all the things I'm working on. After that I had the brilliant idea of writing out all the things I need to do to upgrade my computer from Win7 to Win10, since Win7 is no longer going to be supported. Apart from wondering if I have to buy RAM or even a new freaking desktop computer, I now have a long list of files to sort out, backups to make, program keys to make sure I have, and so on and so forth. It's exhausting to think about, let alone look at the list while I get it done.
I did get my backups zipped and loaded today. I have a list of things to do, I got a lot of administrivia done at work. And though I didn't get any edits and very little written today, even on top of day job stuff I got myself lined up so I can just go through things when I get home. So that's good. Sugar- and caffeine-highs and subsequent lack of focus aside.