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Health and Wellness
It's amazing how deadlines can go zooming by when you, say, have the flu. It's also amazing how, even if you've been feeling discontented and unsettled, something about being well and having your body back to nearly normal makes it quite easy to be cheerful.
Before I got the flu, I admit, I was getting bogged down with the deadlines I've agreed to on various projects. Very luckily, I'd scheduled this week as a buffer week, hoping to get caught up on some projects that had been slipping--mainly the very exciting project I'm working on for Gale, working with prestigious authors on autobiographical essays to be published in the Contemporary Authors and Something about the Author series. The work on my end involves scanning, copyediting, being in contact with the writers--all pretty exciting work! Now that I'm finally feeling myself again, I made up the two deadlines that the flu made impossible and started catching up on the autobiography project by editing a wonderful short essay by Jonathan Baumbach. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy copyediting at this level--it's very subtle, because it's so very important for the authors' words and style to be their own on this project. For the most part, just getting to tinker with well-put-together words is a delight, and I'm definitely enjoying the work.
In part, I think, I'm enjoying things because I'm feeling so much healthier. The stress has lessened because everything had to get pushed back when I was ill. And now that I've accepted that, I'm moving on, doing the work, and moving ahead, getting back to where I need to be. Albone commented on one of my earlier posts that I'm ever the optimist on this blog. It's nice I manage to present myself that way here, because it's not always easy to capture a rosy outlook and apply it to my life. (As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
banana_pants pointed out, the Onion says they've released a drug to "help" perpetually cheery people. I've never quite needed that!) So I'm full of gratitude right now that for the last few days, things have gone well, I'm feeling healthier, I was able to return to karate for at least one class, and life is, momentarily, as it should be.
What's one good thing that happened in your day?
Before I got the flu, I admit, I was getting bogged down with the deadlines I've agreed to on various projects. Very luckily, I'd scheduled this week as a buffer week, hoping to get caught up on some projects that had been slipping--mainly the very exciting project I'm working on for Gale, working with prestigious authors on autobiographical essays to be published in the Contemporary Authors and Something about the Author series. The work on my end involves scanning, copyediting, being in contact with the writers--all pretty exciting work! Now that I'm finally feeling myself again, I made up the two deadlines that the flu made impossible and started catching up on the autobiography project by editing a wonderful short essay by Jonathan Baumbach. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy copyediting at this level--it's very subtle, because it's so very important for the authors' words and style to be their own on this project. For the most part, just getting to tinker with well-put-together words is a delight, and I'm definitely enjoying the work.
In part, I think, I'm enjoying things because I'm feeling so much healthier. The stress has lessened because everything had to get pushed back when I was ill. And now that I've accepted that, I'm moving on, doing the work, and moving ahead, getting back to where I need to be. Albone commented on one of my earlier posts that I'm ever the optimist on this blog. It's nice I manage to present myself that way here, because it's not always easy to capture a rosy outlook and apply it to my life. (As
banana_pants pointed out, the Onion says they've released a drug to "help" perpetually cheery people. I've never quite needed that!) So I'm full of gratitude right now that for the last few days, things have gone well, I'm feeling healthier, I was able to return to karate for at least one class, and life is, momentarily, as it should be.What's one good thing that happened in your day?