| Jul. 11th, 2009 @ 08:49 pm Limbo |
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No, not the dance, the state of being neither one thing nor the other. That's kinda how I feel at the moment, with another three weeks to go at work. I don't have any plans for this weekend or next, which can be a bit boring: As part of The Plan, the idea is I'm going to be using these kinds of weekends to get extra writing done. It makes sense - there's more people about doing stuff, so it'll be easier to do shopping etc in the week and ensconce myself at home at the weekend typing up hopefully-hilarious dialogue. I just hope I can get into the mindframe to do it, because at the moment I'm nowhere near it. A month ago I could have got started straight away, but I guess all the getting messed around at work has got in the way.
I think I will be able to get started, hopefully a couple of weeks into my sabbatical. I'm keeping busy in the first few weeks anyway to clear my head, including lots of theatre (obviously) and a trip to visit friends I haven't seen for a couple of years. So I'm looking forward to all that. In fact at the moment I've got into the habit of every so often picking up my phone and looking at the calendar, at the things I've got planned from August onwards to cheer myself up - it's become like a comfort blanket or a nervous twitch. Most of them are theatre trips of course, but after a few weeks I also want to start going to the gym, partly to get fitter and partly to add structure to my days.
Meanwhile I seem to be sleeping a hell of a lot on these quiet weekends (although the muggy weather probably isn't helping with that.) Even starting a blog post seems like a lot of effort (though as you can probably tell once I start I keep going...) Don't worry, this isn't me getting depressed and thinking I'm doing the wrong thing by leaving work (that's not to say I'm not due a massive panic as it gets closer, I think we can assume that's going to happen.) But at the moment I'm quietly confident that once I've put some distance between myself and my current work situation I'll be able to start work on The Control Room. In fact I recently came up with a completely new ending for the play which I'm still not sure whether I want to use or not (it could be construed as what the Simpsons writers call "a screw-you to the audience.") But at the moment I think still being involved in office politics means I'm not ready to take a step back and write about it. |
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