{"id":10051,"date":"2015-03-15T21:14:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T02:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=10051"},"modified":"2015-03-17T07:58:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T12:58:53","slug":"overworked-under-noticed-and-generally-crabby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/overworked-under-noticed-and-generally-crabby\/","title":{"rendered":"Overworked, under-noticed, and generally crabby"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read a few things recently about how creative people<\/a>, and everyone really, need downtime<\/a> to re-charge.<\/p>\n

I feel like I get the illustration of lack of downtime every semester, when I think oh, I’m going to re-vamp this course, and I have all these creative ideas … and then, in the rush to get it done, I tweak, and do things more like the same old way.<\/p>\n

The last few years I have just gotten busier and busier. Thanks, Mr. Governor, yes, I have been regularly teaching one more class<\/a>. I always work on the weekends, and almost every evening during the week. And, somehow, the more I do at work, the more I feel passed over for the younger [smarter?] ones.<\/p>\n

No cookbook offers after 8 years of writing this blog – thos definitely go to the younger<\/a>, cuter<\/a>, ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think over-busy-ness makes me less creative – it’s certainly making me less happy. And I’m getting old. Am I really going to set the world on fire at this late date? I might only be around for another 30 years or so. Can I still become a grande<\/a> dame<\/a> of cookbook<\/a> writing<\/a> at this age??<\/p>\n

I think I’m blogging less – I know I’m taking photos and posting recipes less.<\/p>\n

And, well, this is not architecture – less is not more. Thanks, Mr. Van der Rohe<\/a>. Who’s a 3\/27<\/a> brother<\/a> – didn’t know that till just now. After all the photos of his buildings<\/a> that I cataloged when I lived in Chicago … but then again, when I was an art history major, they taught me to look at the work, not the artist’s life.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I started working on menus for three Sunday suppers at Dinner at DebS<\/a> – but I didn’t get very far. I think sometimes I make myself more busy, by making myself feel like, I only have this one window of time in which to produce something – and feeling guilty when I don’t<\/em> make it. I guess I should give myself more space.<\/p>\n

Well, I got all my tax stuff together today, to take to the accountant tomorrow. I made a full English breakfast<\/a>. I washed my hair. I fed the cats and scooped the litter. I unloaded the dishwasher. I graded 2 or 3 students’ quizzes, and one journal, and emailed a realtor, to set plans in motion to sell the supper club house. I did a little work email, although I didn’t get the raft of professional association emails that need to be sent. Oh, well, I guess there’s always Monday, right? And, oh yea, I made a loaf of semolina bread too – the recipe needs perfecting – the dough was too wet – but it’s completely edible, even like this.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding all that, I think the new recipe has to be not to think about how much I’ve done, and how much I have to do, but look for little chances, to stare out the window, and do nothing.<\/p>\n

\"Semolina<\/a>

Semolina bread, first try<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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