Temperature problems
Feb. 21st, 2014 06:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI seem to be doomed to work in offices that are either much too hot or much too cold. Right now I am exceedingly chilly (or "tilly," as Bean would say, not to be confused with "silly," which he also pronounces "tilly" with only the slightest nuance). I should have worn a hoodie to work tonight, but foolishly I opted for a lighter cotton shirt, and now I regret that decision intensely. Given that it's not yet 2am and this is only going to get worse, I may put my winter coat back on in order to keep warm.
My life, she is exciting, yes?
In other news, I have begun Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It's a heck of a challenge, especially given how little concentration and focus I have these days. I have managed to do the first three exercises, but my brain refused to try again for the fourth exercise tonight. I've been taking very bad photographs of my progress with my phone, mostly because it amuses me, but also because that way I'm sort of keeping myself accountable on Twitter, where those photos have been going.
Part of my problem is that I am not by nature a patient person. In fact, I am incredibly impatient, especially with myself. I never acquired the skill of applying myself to a task for long periods of time as a child, mostly because I was lucky enough that most of the things I did came quite easily to me. Playing the recorder and the flute, swimming, writing, all of that. Sure, I had to work to improve, but I started out with a pretty good initial aptitude. Art? Not so much. So rather than work at it, I told myself that I simply wasn't good at it and never did it again. Ah, thirteen-year-old logic.
So now, at 35 and with some really interesting brain fog/concentration issues, it's a lot harder to make myself be patient and put in the amount of time and effort this project really takes. Mostly I'm finding it hard to sit and concentrate for the required amount of time. Either my mind wanders, or I get interrupted by something perfectly legitimate, or something else happens and I have to put the art away. It took me two days to finish one exercise which had me copying a line drawing upside down. I tried starting a fourth exercise today, as I mentioned, but my brain just went "NOPE," and that was the end of that. I couldn't focus on the original drawing, let alone try to reproduce the lines therein. So I have to contend with that as well as the dissatisfied voice at the back of my mind that keeps wondering why I haven't turned into Tamara de Lempicka yet. :P
I'm looking forward to the coming weekend. I get to see some old friends who are stopping by for a short visit on Saturday morning, and this time I don't have to cut my Sunday short to go to work, which is always nice. If the weather permits, I might even try playing outside with Bean again on Sunday when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pdaughter goes to her cake decorating class. This week is the big week in which she has to bake an entire cake to be decorated, and I believe they are learning to do basket weave (if memory serves). So there will likely be cake this weekend, which is awesome.
Time is simply flying by, the way it always does. It doesn't feel like February should be more than half over, and yet it is. There are any number of explanations for this by way of cognitive psychology, of course. Apparently we form more detailed and longer-lasting memories of first experiences, and that repetitive experiences tend to lose their impact over time, thus lending themselves less well to being readily identifiable at one juncture in time. Sorry, I am rather tired, no idea if that sentence makes sense other than in my head. Time will tell.
Long story short, it feels like it was the New Year just yesterday, and I'm not sure where the time has gone. I should try to come up with a more interesting subject for an LJ post soon. I think I've gone through all the requests, but I'll go back and check just to make sure. In the meantime, I'm going to go put on my coat, because it's freezing in here.
:::ETA:::
I just remembered I have a thermos of warm coffee that I can drink. Tilly me!
My life, she is exciting, yes?
In other news, I have begun Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It's a heck of a challenge, especially given how little concentration and focus I have these days. I have managed to do the first three exercises, but my brain refused to try again for the fourth exercise tonight. I've been taking very bad photographs of my progress with my phone, mostly because it amuses me, but also because that way I'm sort of keeping myself accountable on Twitter, where those photos have been going.
Part of my problem is that I am not by nature a patient person. In fact, I am incredibly impatient, especially with myself. I never acquired the skill of applying myself to a task for long periods of time as a child, mostly because I was lucky enough that most of the things I did came quite easily to me. Playing the recorder and the flute, swimming, writing, all of that. Sure, I had to work to improve, but I started out with a pretty good initial aptitude. Art? Not so much. So rather than work at it, I told myself that I simply wasn't good at it and never did it again. Ah, thirteen-year-old logic.
So now, at 35 and with some really interesting brain fog/concentration issues, it's a lot harder to make myself be patient and put in the amount of time and effort this project really takes. Mostly I'm finding it hard to sit and concentrate for the required amount of time. Either my mind wanders, or I get interrupted by something perfectly legitimate, or something else happens and I have to put the art away. It took me two days to finish one exercise which had me copying a line drawing upside down. I tried starting a fourth exercise today, as I mentioned, but my brain just went "NOPE," and that was the end of that. I couldn't focus on the original drawing, let alone try to reproduce the lines therein. So I have to contend with that as well as the dissatisfied voice at the back of my mind that keeps wondering why I haven't turned into Tamara de Lempicka yet. :P
I'm looking forward to the coming weekend. I get to see some old friends who are stopping by for a short visit on Saturday morning, and this time I don't have to cut my Sunday short to go to work, which is always nice. If the weather permits, I might even try playing outside with Bean again on Sunday when
pdaughter goes to her cake decorating class. This week is the big week in which she has to bake an entire cake to be decorated, and I believe they are learning to do basket weave (if memory serves). So there will likely be cake this weekend, which is awesome.Time is simply flying by, the way it always does. It doesn't feel like February should be more than half over, and yet it is. There are any number of explanations for this by way of cognitive psychology, of course. Apparently we form more detailed and longer-lasting memories of first experiences, and that repetitive experiences tend to lose their impact over time, thus lending themselves less well to being readily identifiable at one juncture in time. Sorry, I am rather tired, no idea if that sentence makes sense other than in my head. Time will tell.
Long story short, it feels like it was the New Year just yesterday, and I'm not sure where the time has gone. I should try to come up with a more interesting subject for an LJ post soon. I think I've gone through all the requests, but I'll go back and check just to make sure. In the meantime, I'm going to go put on my coat, because it's freezing in here.
:::ETA:::
I just remembered I have a thermos of warm coffee that I can drink. Tilly me!
