Resistance

I had a day off from school today thanks to the MLK hol­i­day. I could have spent pretty much the whole day lam­p­work­ing, but kept putting off even turn­ing on the kiln and concentrator.

• First there was laundry,
• Then the rou­tine com­puter work (you know, emails, and blog feeds, and mon­i­tor­ing the forum)
• Then work­ing on updat­ing my cur­ricu­lum vitae, which I have to turn in before Fri­day for post-​tenure review
• Then study­ing the tem­plate files for The Glass Haven to try to fig­ure out how to place ads there.
• Add in a lit­tle read­ing here and there.

By evening I still wasn’t in the mood to torch, but I told myself to go in there and at least use up the twistie left over from the week­end. So I did, then played around with mak­ing a basic crunch bead (not as easy in boro as in soft glass), and made a few more twisties for later in the week. Not a par­tic­u­larly pro­duc­tive ses­sion, but at least I melted a lit­tle glass and even­tu­ally hit a bit of a groove.

Then, iron­i­cally, as I was doing my last-​of-​the-​day check of the emails and feeds, I found that Leo Babauta of Zen Habits had talked about resis­tance, my resis­tance and his, to get­ting things done:

7 Pow­er­ful Steps to Over­com­ing Resis­tance and Actu­ally Get­ting Stuff Done

Uh huh.? Num­ber seven.? “Just start.”