Know what I’m doing today, after I finish baking oatmeal cookies? (And in between batches, chasing the stubborn little grey mackerel tabby off the top of the warm stove, drat her paws and whiskers?)
Research in the living room! I have books and pens and notebooks and sticky tabs and my new recording of the Planet Earth soundtrack (George Fenton, how I love thee) to keep me company. I have the Orchestrated ms. to work on, and coven/writing research to do, and a new book to read to help me with Harpsichord Dreams. There ought to be some celloing in there as well. In other words, today is a work day that emphatically does not feel like one, seeming instead like a day of personal indulgence. We should all have more of these.
LOL – last night I had an entire hour all to myself, so what did I do? Re-organized my hard drive! Woo! What fun! (Actually it was kind of interesting from an archaeological viewpoint, going through old, OLD files – school essays, SAVWAA stories, previous versions of my website… like time travelling, without the nuisance of finding a clothes shop that will stay in one place for decades.)
Um. So! Yes! Work without the auspices of working. Odd. But fun!
Ha ha! I know exactly the feeling- it just means that you are doing the right thing with your life, in my book.