Running to stand still

[kerravonsen]

Ah, I'm so tired... mentally exhausted, maybe. Thinking of the endless list of things to do that I keep on adding more to. I feel like the Red Queen.

For example... I wanted to write a daily-bible-reading script. But I wanted to do it properly -- which sidetracked me to (a) investigating Perl module skeleton creators, writing a subclass module for one, discovering another, better one, and writing a plugin module for it and (b) writing a "proper" perl module for the scrappy scripts I'd been using peacemeal to help with my perl module writing (originally inspired by the irritating task of updating the version-ids in most of the test files for txt2html). And the plugin I wrote isn't sufficient, so maybe I should write another one... and I'm no closer to writing the daily-bible-reading script which sparked all this frenzy.

You'll all be thinking I'm a P next.

(sigh)

I'm never going to finish anything at this rate!

Comments

[kerravonsen]

The more serious question is why you feel the need to create an impossible workload for yourself. There has to be some underlying reason.

Good question. Pity I don't have a clue as to the answer, apart from just that I'm a perfectionist...

Are you seeing enough people socially outside work? (face to face, not on the net)
Um, I don't see how making myself more busy would help with how busy I am... How much is "enough"? It varies from person to person. Too much socializing for me is anti-refreshing. Well, depending on the people, anyway. I've been doing a lot of socializing lately because we've been doing a lot of stuff with my brother-from-Indonesia and his family, which has been fun, so I don't think you could say I haven't been socializing enough.