Yeah, I Might Still Be Watching Glee
Posted by Moose on June 9th, 2010. Filed under: My Brain Needs a Drink.You know how some days you feel really in the groove of things? You hop out of bed to exercise in the morning, you choose the apple over the apple danish, one work task flows effortlessly into the next, and nobody cuts you off when you’re trying to make a left turn? Yeah. I love those days. Too bad today isn’t one of them.
My stomach started acting up yesterday and I went to bed thinking all would be well in the morning. And then…it wasn’t. So I didn’t exercise. I’m sure it would have helped, but my stomach prefers coddling. Unfortunately, lying prone to satisfy the Stomach of Doom is far more conducive to watching Glee on Hulu than it is to working toward looming deadlines. In an attempt to rejoin the land of the living, I got up to take some Tagamet and make a smoothie. A smoothie that promptly eluded my control to splatter blueberry colored goop all over the walls, the floor, the stove, and my favorite white dish towel. I didn’t know there was that much smoothie in the world, let alone in my glass.
I just found some dried smoothie on my nose. Wow.
Being in that lovely flow is a science. When I’m not there, I know exactly how to get there. (Stop watching Glee, start working. Stop eating donuts, start eating apples. Stop surfing Facebook, start doing yoga. Stop staring at Twitter, start writing a blog post.) But when you’re not there, it takes sometimes superhuman effort to do one of those things. Especially when Glee is so darn compelling and Will is crying.
It sometimes takes a big shift in perspective to realize that what will make me happy in the moment won’t necessarily make me happy in the long run. (Damn it.)
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June 9th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
It’s been so long since I’ve had a flow day. I miss them.
June 9th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Oh thank you, Amber. I am in EXACTLY the same place. (Or at least in a similar, but somewhat differently shaped place.) I’m a new mom, getting an average of negative three hours of sleep a night (which sounds impossible, maybe my math is off because I’m too tired to count correctly, but certainly I’m not getting any more than negative two hours.) And I’m on deadline for my next book, my editor wants to see it by the end of August. So what do I do? I hold my screaming baby and read blogs and tweet and write maybe ten words of my novel. And at the end of the day, I feel scared and worthless and miserably unfulfilled.
That is to say, I don’t have an answer, but I’m glad I’m not alone in my miserable unfulfilledness. We’ll both get there, though. Realizing the laziness doesn’t make us happy is the first step, I think…
June 9th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
I can totally relate. By the way I just saw the latest episode of Glee as well and loved it!
June 10th, 2010 at 6:20 am
I think you’ve just described my last 3 months. Unfortunately I haven’t found my inner superhuman so it’s full on Coronation St., Glee and Facebook for me! I had no idea that people could have favorite dishtowels…
June 10th, 2010 at 7:29 am
Hey there is NOTHING WRONG with Glee, and I will maintain that until I have no more breath with which to sing along to a Journey medley. That said, I hear ya. It’s hard to turn off all the distractions and get stuff done, ya know?