Tedium. Thats what seems to be enveloping me. Tedium. I am making slow progress at work and the work is extremely tedious and involved. But o so tedious. Tedius. Tedium. And its not going as smoothly as I would like. I need a comb to go through this old code to find ways to optimise this stuff. Its such a tedious process and its looking like it will go on for months and months. Months and months and months of tedium. Oh well. I guess afterwards I will feel that I have achieved much. Perhaps I should view it as a Buddhist exercise in mindfulness. Make it a spiritual task, a way to find the moment underneath the dross. A Herculean task of minute changes.
My father brought back some zataar for me from Israel and also a cookery book from my Aunt (with special recipes for boosting the immune system) and some hebrew cd's. The one is great and the one is okaish.
I feel very drained by the tedium of the today's work and the fact that despite working hard and with concentration and focus I have not got very deep into the.... I think I must stop contemplating that and think about how nice I will feel when I do something I love. lurve. luff. oh... bugger.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
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.. It's in words that the magic is -- Abracadabra, Open Sesame, and the rest -- but the magic words in one story aren't magical in the next. The real magic is to understand which words work, and when, and for what; the trick is to learn the trick. ... And those words are made from the letters of our alphabet: a couple-dozen squiggles we can draw with the pen. This is the key! And the treasure, too, if we can only get our hands on it! It's as if - as if the key to the treasure is the treasure! ------- John Barth, Chimera
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Just slip into subconscious mode.
Works for me.
warwi3k.
When teduim envelops you, take this advice from people in the know: "remember the elephants in their pink shoes..." It works for Daniela and AuntieG!
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