Keep your spirits up

[altariel]

I've been feeling despondent about work all day, because after last week's cold-hiatus I haven't been able to pull my concentration together all week, and then I started to get locked into that whole stupid mindset I have about how this is just typical of my inability to bring anything substantial to completion. Then I decided that panicking myself into a cycle of self-loathing was a really rubbish idea, and that often these periods of agitated downtime precede a burst of creativity, so I stopped trying to write the thing that manifestly didn't want to be written, and I wrote something different which was short but gave me some clarity about backstory.

Then I had a ham and tomato sandwich and listened to the Scissor Sisters tell me that while their hearts might well be cold and hard and petrified, everybody nevertheless wants the same thing which turns out to be love. Hurray! Then I put aside the current project and reread the chunk from the other project wot I wrote in the US last summer, and I decided it was an awful lot better than I remembered and might be quite good if it got finished. Then I went and had a shower and treated the bathroom to a medley of alto-range hits starting with Tippett's version of Deep River and ending, via a number of Aimee Mann songs, with Trouble in the Fields and Fairport's Come All Ye as an encore. Ah, the healing powers of ham, hot water and song. Next this evening: Jericho.

Comments

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Well done, you! :)

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

um...I've never seen Jericho, but from what I'm told, using that series to cheer oneself up will likely yield the same results as watching Caves of Androzani to relax...

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Hail the power of ham, hot water and song! Go you for stomping on the bad mindset.

And you wrote and there was clarity and that is good.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's quite heartwarming in its own way!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

There's been a rather nice spaghetti bolognese since too.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Ah Deep River... Well done you!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

What I really need now is a Mars Bar.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-) Excellent icon!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

There ought to be an emergency Mars Bar helpline which would pop a Mars Bar through your letter box five minutes after you rang it.

I ate my other Double Decker this evening, and thought of you.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

You were wise getting two double deckers (quadruple decker?).

I think there should be government funding for that helpline.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

I'd like to second that motion! What's a Welfare State without chocolate delivery?

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Singing is so cathartic. I sing Handel in the bath because the acoustics are so good. My family hammers on the door complaining, but I don't care because the door is locked. Mwahahahaha!

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

Doesn't the tomato have restorative powers too? If it feels left out, it may become jealous plot revenge. Never underestimate a jealous tomato. We can imagine the conversation thus:

Ham: I have restorative powers! I am Super-Ham!

Tomato: Oy - we're a team. I have lycopene.

Ham: You were incidental.

Tomato: Uncidental? That'll look good on my gravestone!

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

Hey i've invented a new word - Uncidental. Keyboard can't spell. :-)

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

There is very little wrong in life that can't be put right by a ham and tomato sandwich!

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

Then I decided that panicking myself into a cycle of self-loathing was a really rubbish idea, and that often these periods of agitated downtime precede a burst of creativity, so I stopped trying to write the thing that manifestly didn't want to be written, and I wrote something different which was short but gave me some clarity about backstory.

Between this and the ham sandwich, you sound like a Terry Pratchett heroine. Go you!

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Hooray for knowing oneself and sandwiches!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have always wanted to be Granny Weatherwax when I grow up!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

We have the makings of a political platform here.

[ex-naomi-ja.livejournal.com]

Your first paragraph sounds exactly like me. I never get quite as far as paragraph two though. Maybe I need to eat more ham?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Good on you! I like the echoes I get from the shower cubicle, particularly when I pitch my voice really deep!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And today there will be the healing powers of a bacon sandwich, yum!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Tomato: Oy - we're a team. I have lycopene.

LOL!