Walking Backwards

Thrilling experiences from a rather uneventful life.

Monday, December 19, 2005

Joe has returned to work this morning, and Nicholas and I are back to our normal routine of doing nothing in our pajamas. Well, I'm doing nothing, Nicholas is busy terrorizing the cat and destroying the universe. I know I have a lot to do, but I'm rather enjoying this little stolen moment of peace and free-time. At some point in my life I developed a guilt-complex about sitting still. You see, when you sign up for eight-hundred responsibilities, free moments are supposed to be spent on the oft-neglected ones. Why sit still when you have FSA paperwork to fill out, when you have the third revision of an article to work on in the hopes that it will fit a different journal's criteria, when you have Mt. Laundry to scale? For now, I pretend I don't have a to-do list. For now, I pretend there are no deadlines. I just sit and drink my cup of coffee and fix the pillows on my son's fort whenever he asks me. I sit on the computer and don't talk on the phone at the same time or balance my checkbook between moments of inspiration while writing. I need these moments of being still. They are my justification for being busy so often, for the few moments each day it gives me to drink my cup of coffee and be silent.

posted by Jamie # 6:50 AM

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