Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

I finally finished writing a review for Blogcritics. It’ll be my first one since my vacation in the fabled ‘place of convalescence’ (you see how much more eloquent that is than ‘loony bin’??? You gotta love the euphemisms, they have their place).

Thanks to my Bloglines subscription to Lifehack, I came across some very interesting posts, related to writing, and more broadly, productivity. The first one is actual writing advice from George Orwell. They are excellent tips, and naturally being the hack I am, I’ve broken all those rules. Idiot me.

The other on mess and productivity is some small relief. No matter how hard I try to keep my work-related (that means literary and musical) stuff from becoming a mess, I just can’t. Some things don’t have places. Other things do have places but keeping them where they belong means I waste time not having near my workspace (the second lounge room). Just today after having a toddler over, I put away a bunch of non-baby-safe things. Then later when he was gone, I had to take them all out again – that’s time I could have been using to actually work (on said review mentioned above). I wish I didn’t have so much damn stuff. By which I mean books, mainly. But recently I’ve been typing up old poetry I wrote ages ago from old notebooks – and christ I have reams of the crap everywhere. I’m glad I have them as they have saved me when my first (EVIL!) laptop (okay, it wasn’t evil, it was running Windows 98 and that was sodding evil) shorted out and the hard drive got killed.

Or do we just have too many belongings? But then, if these belongings create mess, do they help us be more productive, or do they hinder us? Who the hell knows. Personally, as an aspiring artist, I can’t help it. I collect so many things that I think will inspire me (you should see the plethora of images and posters plastered on my windows).

I’d make a really shitty commie. Why can’t life be as simple as, say, Pocketmod (thanks Ash)?

But maybe not. I don’t remember the last time I bought lipgloss. I mean it.