Short Attention Span
I mentioned in the title of this site that I have a short attention span... Well, at least I seem to have one this week.
Let me illustrate. I work from home.. I deliver training courses, but I also do a little writing work on the side. Science textbooks, that kind of thing. This week is a week at home, and I have a writing job to get done. So I start writing on Tuesday morning. By lunchtime I have written one module (out of 40) but also chatted to Becky on MSN, signed up for and created my first blog, downladed Picasa 2 to have a play with.. watched a whole load of trailers for different movies etc etc... The writing is going slowly. Wednesday I ended up with two new news stories for the Angels website and spent a load of time uploading pics to the boy one (and no I wont give the address here just yet)
Add to the distraction that for part of the work means working up artwork briefs for the art team to do stuff with - so I need to find images on the net that are along the lines of things that I want. The kinds of images and sites I have ended up on from google searches are very odd at times.
So searching for an image of a ptarmigan foot to show its adaptation to living in cold climates (it's big and feathery and works like a snow shoe to increase surface area) led me to a site that tells you how you can make money out of photographing road kill... Now that sounds like it could have potential. Down my way we don't really have very interesting roadkill... the chances of stumbling upon a ptarmigan or opossum in Kent are probably highly unlikely.
I have also ended up on sites such as Turtle Times and learnt that the Arctic hare is known in Canada by several names including 'rabbit', 'hare' and 'ukaliq'. A hare is not, however, a rabbit.
Broadband can be a curse as well as a blessing.... I cant seem to go five minutes without either clicking on the little IE icon on my quick launch bar and seeing whats happening out there. I've probably written about a third of what I hoped I would have achieved this week... still, I have a month to get the rest done... just gotta fit it in around my training as well... oh well.
At least I am feeling better about cutting back on the amount of Everquest that I am playing this week!
Let me illustrate. I work from home.. I deliver training courses, but I also do a little writing work on the side. Science textbooks, that kind of thing. This week is a week at home, and I have a writing job to get done. So I start writing on Tuesday morning. By lunchtime I have written one module (out of 40) but also chatted to Becky on MSN, signed up for and created my first blog, downladed Picasa 2 to have a play with.. watched a whole load of trailers for different movies etc etc... The writing is going slowly. Wednesday I ended up with two new news stories for the Angels website and spent a load of time uploading pics to the boy one (and no I wont give the address here just yet)
Add to the distraction that for part of the work means working up artwork briefs for the art team to do stuff with - so I need to find images on the net that are along the lines of things that I want. The kinds of images and sites I have ended up on from google searches are very odd at times.
So searching for an image of a ptarmigan foot to show its adaptation to living in cold climates (it's big and feathery and works like a snow shoe to increase surface area) led me to a site that tells you how you can make money out of photographing road kill... Now that sounds like it could have potential. Down my way we don't really have very interesting roadkill... the chances of stumbling upon a ptarmigan or opossum in Kent are probably highly unlikely.
I have also ended up on sites such as Turtle Times and learnt that the Arctic hare is known in Canada by several names including 'rabbit', 'hare' and 'ukaliq'. A hare is not, however, a rabbit.
Broadband can be a curse as well as a blessing.... I cant seem to go five minutes without either clicking on the little IE icon on my quick launch bar and seeing whats happening out there. I've probably written about a third of what I hoped I would have achieved this week... still, I have a month to get the rest done... just gotta fit it in around my training as well... oh well.
At least I am feeling better about cutting back on the amount of Everquest that I am playing this week!
posted by Joanna @ 6/03/2005 10:55:00 AM
1 Comments:
At June 07, 2005 12:04 AM,
cyanne said…
you aren't the only one with a short attention span, I have to break things up into tiny pieces to get anything done.... I'm afraid I'm very easily bored!
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