Mania never lay your head down

[j4]

I need to cut down on the caffeine, or something. Since last night my brain has been rattling around like a pea in a piggybank; all I can do is make crap puns and free-associate off everything people say.

I wondered the other day whether I'm trying to do too much. The last two days have managed to include: one karate lesson; one singing rehearsal; one orchestra rehearsal; reading two and a half novels; writing a long 'creative' LJ post and a link-saturated blog-style LJ post; one supermarket shopping trip; and enough work (including one edition of the Reporter) that my employers aren't complaining. The problem is then I write it all down and look at it and think "Not ENOUGH! I'm NOT DOING ENOUGH!"

I resent having to sleep. I stay up till 2am reading and wake up at 8am. (There'll be time enough for sleeping when we're dead.) I read while I'm brushing my teeth so the time isn't totally wasted on tedious bits of life-maintenance. I'm trying to live nine lives in one. (It's about being able to fly; it's about dying nine times.) And I'm still not achieving anything. Why can't I put all this effort and energy into something worthwhile rather than endless, pointless middle-class hobbies? What the hell is worthwhile anyway?

This post brought to you by Janet's Teenage Brain.

I need a holiday.

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

If you don't enjoy it it's not worthwhile.

Um, well. I don't enjoy brushing my teeth, but I still do it. I think there are things which are worth doing but which are not particularly enjoyable in and of themselves.

The only problem with tooth-cleaning while book-reading is that the books have a tendency to get splattered with toothpaste. :-/

[k425.livejournal.com]

I don't enjoy brushing my teeth

Okay, that's a good point. Although I definitely enjoy the end result!

And you don't want to know how many of my books have splatters. It doesn't show as much with ordinary toothpaste, but I used to use Euthymol. It's PINK.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I suspect that many people read newspapers while brushing their teeth. This is why the first two of pages of the Sun are often splattered and stuck together.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Now, that's an explanation I'd never thought of.