1. Finish an essay I'm working on.
2. Put away books on floor, bed, by the window and work table.
3. Watch Caravaggio.
More updates on 1 & 3. The thought of actually managing 2 is already exhausting me.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
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I think you have those in reverse order. And naturally I assume "put away" is code for "browse"...
Wow! That is a short list.
cat: it's code for cull, actually. *sigh*
falsie: if you say so. you *are* taking into account how long it will take to decide which books i can live without, aren't you?
SB: Whoa! Cull is a whole different story, obviously.
And I didn't mean it was easy. I just meant it must be nice to have a weekend list that's only 3 items long (irrespective of how long said items might take). Me, I always end up with a 15 - 20 point list of to-dos.
The good side of this is that you can avoid doing the one or two really big things you should do but don't want (e.g. culling books) and still feel happy because you got, say, 14 of the 16 things on your list done. You should try it.
falsie: of course, when i say 'put away books' but really mean 'cull', i can't complain if no one wants to hold my hand and offer hankies in support.
and i see no point in making lists of weekend chores and feeling guilty when nothing on the list gets done. so far (it's ten am) i've done the dishes and cleared the garden. that feels pretty damn good.
oooh sundays!
Cull?? Get a grip, woman.
SB: See, that's exactly my point. If you'd made a list with doing dishes and clearing the garden as two of the items on it in addition to the three things you list above, you could have the satisfaction of being done with 40% of your weekend list by 10 am in the morning. Then you could feel all virtuous and productive and give yourself the rest of the day off.
in fact i only did 2.
culled a 100 books and dusted and rearranged 9 shelves. i don't mind that jarman's been postponed to today and i can't even remember what 1 was.
cat: why? (and i remember with regret that the cull would have been a 102 if you'd let me send you the mckenzie and hoban).
falsie: 40%, 30%, key fark? i think, like calvin, that it's not how much but like how much it feels. i consider 80% of my list done.
.. and? You could do it as intended?
It's painful enough when animals are culled, it's downright shocking when it happens to books.
But the question is: why? Scant reward for their mute unstinting companionship...
prabhu: see my comment before yours.
cat: ok, amongst the books (now lying on my floor. sigh. i will never learn) are about 15 edgar wallaces, 4-5 isabelle allendes, dick francis, reginald hill, some pseudo-philosophy of the coelho variety that crept into our shelves and which we buried in some decent corner somewhere all these years.
and so on. besides, it's not as if i'm burning them. some library somewhere will get them, which just means they offer their silent companionship (:-)) to someone else.
Pl find article about book reading of Roadrunner at Akshara Books at the link given below.
http://pustakam.net/?p=3576
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