Insulation works both ways
Apr. 28th, 2010 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceIt's an odd time of year: suddenly warmer upstairs than down (because the only heating is downstairs, but that's off now, so the residual heat all gets caught up here), and warmer inside than out (because, y'know, spring sunshine and all: but it takes time to work its way in through all the goddamn insulation).
So. Good time of year to be virtuous in the garden, then. I have herbs to plant out: a couple of thymes (golden and vulgar, since you ask; for thyme past is contained in thyme present) and a rosemary (is it actually possible to have too much rosemary? I've never managed it yet. Rosemary goes in everything). Peas and beans too, I could plant peas and beans. And wish for slow worms to eat the slugs, if I can't have ducks.
And then I must, I really must do some work. I may have to go back to that transient notion of keeping one computer for work and one for internetting. It was awkward, faffing about with two keyboards and two mice, and having to swap files physically between the two - but that was the point, rather. When a tempting thing is awkward, an idle man is less likely to indulge. I definitely did more actual work those few days.
Or, of course, I could just take my lunch to the Lit & Phil and stay all day, leave the internet at home. I was in there for an hour or so this morning, wrote a thousand words, decided that was enough - and on my way out one of my other writerly friends murmured "Bailing out already?" Ouchie...
Oh, I dunno. I just need to work more. More better faster. *nods*
So. Good time of year to be virtuous in the garden, then. I have herbs to plant out: a couple of thymes (golden and vulgar, since you ask; for thyme past is contained in thyme present) and a rosemary (is it actually possible to have too much rosemary? I've never managed it yet. Rosemary goes in everything). Peas and beans too, I could plant peas and beans. And wish for slow worms to eat the slugs, if I can't have ducks.
And then I must, I really must do some work. I may have to go back to that transient notion of keeping one computer for work and one for internetting. It was awkward, faffing about with two keyboards and two mice, and having to swap files physically between the two - but that was the point, rather. When a tempting thing is awkward, an idle man is less likely to indulge. I definitely did more actual work those few days.
Or, of course, I could just take my lunch to the Lit & Phil and stay all day, leave the internet at home. I was in there for an hour or so this morning, wrote a thousand words, decided that was enough - and on my way out one of my other writerly friends murmured "Bailing out already?" Ouchie...
Oh, I dunno. I just need to work more. More better faster. *nods*