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Harrison Bergeron Day
August 06, 2008
My brain is utterly fried from 8 1/2 hours of the torture that is my job.
Torture that consists of tasks requiring deep concentration, combined with nearly incessant interruptions. Not brief interruptions, either. Brief, I can usually handle. It takes 5 minutes to make me forget what I was working on, and my interruptions average about 7 minutes. It takes 15-20 minutes to get back into the groove, and the frequency of interruption is about every 25 minutes.
But deadlines are still deadlines, oooh...you bet.
And when the sun came out a little bit ago, I figured a few laps in the pool would be my cure for my poor sauteed brains. It kind of was, but I noticed there is a tinge of murk to the water, and now I'm all obsessive about it, and it's driving me crazy.
Reading: "Goodnight, Irene", by Jan Burke.
Beading: Not in the mood.
Surfing: Mpls: Long Gone One of the many interesting nooks and crannies of Lileks's virtual attic.
Listening: Porgy and Bess. Leontyne Price, and it's a very good version. But not my favorite version--that's an ancient, uncredited cassette dub, originally taken from a Time-Life Collection LP, that I've had for decades. And if I knew how to get a new copy, I'd do it in a minute.
At Random: click here
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