Done yesterday

[mdlbear]

0215 Su
  * W=184.4
  * load drugs, take drugs, coffee, dishes, recycling
  * 8:45 post to.done
  * 09:26-10:26 backups
  * load Colleen's music player with filk and folk albums.  
    (from Callie, who has MP3s)
  * 11:00 Marty coming to shuttle Colleen
  * 13:00 Colleen: Remicade at the Kaiser infusion center
  * 14:00-16:30 TG rehearsal
  * lead sheet for Middle-Aged Bear
  * after dinner: run Landscapes, Middle-Aged Bear
  * lead sheet for Vanguard
  * fix chords for October Country
  * 22:55 Colleen's PICC flush
  * concert key lead sheet for owl-puss (...--A.flk)
    ../Tools/transpose.pl +2 $f.flk $f--A.flk

I've noticed that these posts are, to some extent, displacing what used to be short narratives covering the high points. Grump: I'll have to get back to those: the detailed tracking is incredibly useful to me, but there's little point in subjecting the rest of you to it.

Anybody out there want me to continue posting the detailed lists?

Comments

[danceswthcobras.livejournal.com]

Do what is useful to YOU. That is a large part of what journaling is for. If it ceases to be useful to you and becomes something you are doing primarily for others, it may become more of a chore rather than a life tool.

[mdlbear]

*nod*

The journaling in general will continue, as will the detailed "to.done" lists. I'm just wondering whether combining the two is useful to anyone who might want to keep up with what I'm doing.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

I would probably skim over the detail part if it's combined, just like I don't click on most of the cut tags for them now.

However, I would definitely vote that you continue posting them in some format until you decide that they are not helping you any more, and tell us so.

Because I doubt I'm the only one who's got a little script in the back of their mind that says "mdlbear says that posting those helps him, and he's still posting them, which means he's still doing things that help him, which is a good sign, so if he stops posting them, consider whether a gentle, supportive note asking if things are okay and if his head is still above water is appropriate."

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I agree that you can always cut-tag the detailed lists. I also agree that I miss the narrative.

Continue the detailed lists in whatever way helps you the most; I remember when I first joined LJ that we had a discussion about the difference it makes to put something in writing knowing that it CAN BE read--that it makes a big difference to our inner feeling that we DID communicate it, and thus to our ability to move on past that emotional moment--and that's true, we agreed back then, even when we get no feedback to confirm that anyone did actually read it. Assuming this is still true for you, I'd suggest posting the lists (cut-tagged as you have been doing), and re-adding the narratives.

It doesn't matter to me if they are separate posts, each done when the spirit (or your to-do list) moves you, or whether you cut-tag the list in the post with the narrative. But "TG Rehersal" doesn't tell me how it went--if you found inspiration for a new song, or found a new riff, or lost your guitar pick in the guitar and spent 15 minutes feeling stupid while you tried to shake it back out again, or whatever.

(I like it that my singing partner, filkart, has got the "get the pick out of the instrument" thing down to a science--I can leave the pick in there until our next practice and let him, remarkably quickly, do the honors.)

[mdlbear]

*grin* There's a reason why I don't use a pick.

I think separate posts for the most part; at most the list post should get a summary paragraph about how I feel about the previous day. But I'll definitely get back to trying to post more narrative.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Do what is most useful to you. I don't usually click on the cut tags of your to.done lists, but they're not causing any kind of problem in my friends page, if that's what you're wondering.

[mdlbear]

Thanks; no, I was wondering whether anyone at all finds them worth reading. Remains to be seen, I guess.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

I find the to.done lists interesting from the point of view of how they aid in your progress, so don't stop posting them. But I'd also like to see more narrative, especially as to how you feel about what you've done (or not done) in a given time interval.

[mdlbear]

Good suggestion. Done.