Uh Oh, Personal!
Currently reading:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Books finished this week: 0
Library updates:
Not very much to report this week, so apologies for the short missive! I’m mostly focused on reading Dracula, finishing up schoolwork, and trying to stay afloat (that’s a joke, because it rained a lot in New York the last few days; it’s also not a joke, because things have been capital-B Busy and I have cried a lot in therapy about it).
Uh oh, this feels like it’s getting too personal! Well, that’s what happens when I don’t have a book to review.
Friends, I’m tired. I would like to make more time for naps, for self-care, to be creative. But until things slow down, I am enjoying the Daily Calm episodes every day on the Calm app and I am trying to write at least 50 words every day. That isn’t very much. In fact, 50 words is very little. (This paragraph, up to the end of that last sentence, was 58 words, for reference.) But it’s a manageable goal, and it makes me feel happy to meet it. I get to spend a little time in another world, with some interesting characters, and make up some things. It’s small, but I feel creative and accomplished. And I’ll take all that that I can get right now.
Anyhow, some nice moments from this week: unexpectedly running into a friend at a book event on Thursday; a nice chat on Zoom on Friday after a meeting for a lit mag I’m reading for; cozy, rainy evenings; cuddling with my cat to the point of almost being late to work (when work is literally the desk across from my bed).
No Sunday Missive next week, as I’ll be away. I hope you all get to enjoy a long weekend next weekend! And even if you don’t officially get an extra day off or have any plans, I hope you still make time for yourself.
Closing thoughts:
Push yourself to do just a little of the hard things every day. It will lighten your load and give you something to be proud of. And when you have the time to do a little more, you can begin working that into your routine. The important thing is to make a routine at all, and stick to it, and build upon it, at whatever pace works for you.
