Letting it all hang out

There are a couple of blogs I read that are updated every day, with whatever's on the blogger's mind. They've inspired me to try to the same thing, to not wait until I have an idea or something I want to say. To just talk, post a little note, be here.

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Tonight I'm tired. I've been working on a project at work that involves walking around and taking pictures of art and antiques, and I think that's wiping me out just a little. I also think hayfever's doing a number on me--I have a complete love/hate relationship with spring:

On the one hand, the trees are leafing out and everything's so green.

On the other hand, the trees are leafing out and casting pollen to the four winds. Which is how it gets into me, where it makes my eyes ache and my sinuses feel like they've been stuffed with concrete. Oh joy.

Tonight it's damp and foggy. It's supposed to stay damp for days. Which isn't entirely a bad thing: we can use the rain, and the damp washes away the pollen. But days on end of gray wear me out. I love rain, and rainy days...but I'm fond of sunshine too.

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Good reads: Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon and (so far--I haven't finished it) Throne of Jade. Also very good--a devour-in-a-single-night, stay-up-way-too-late book--is Nancy Pickard's new one, The Virgin of Small Plains.

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What else? I have a new desk, which means my office is torn to pieces and I don't know where too much stuff is, and I have stuff to do that I haven't got done...but I'm chipping away at all of it, breaking my goals down into smaller pieces and doing those smaller things.

And the office: well, I'm using this as an opportunity to be pretty ruthless with myself about my "collectibles"--aka all the stuff I never used, never looked at but couldn't quite bring myself to toss. Things that had some sentimental value...but not enough to keep whatever. Presents from people I haven't seen or been in contact with in nearly 20 years, stuff like that.

One thing that's making the process of organizing slow is that I'm thinking it through. "What works for me? How do I really work?" (As opposed to some idea of how I ought to work, or maybe if I did X, I could work like that, even though experience has taught me I will never work like that.)

So that's where I am. Maybe I'll just keep you posted on what's what and how I progress.

I might not post tomorrow--long, long, long day at work: I have to coordinate a night move that I think will go until 10:00 PM, which means I won't be home until 11-ish...and then I have to go in again on Saturday.

So we'll see. But I'm going to try...