Pell-mell Tuesdays
Posted on | September 11, 2007 | 17 Comments
Every minute of the day was allocated for something. Gah! Do you ever have days like that? I’m still getting the hang of it, and mostly I suck.
If left to my own devices I’d be the haphazard, spontaneous, bohemian Aquarius that I am, to the core. I’d forget to eat, and then have pancakes for dinner; I’d write for hours on end and skip washing my hair; I’d sit in cafés to people watch past 10pm, and loose count swimming laps at the pool. But because I am not left to my own devices, I sometimes struggle to stay afloat of the waves of laundry, the books that need reading, the posts that need writing, the drafts that need revising, the kids that need shoe tying, and the small boy who needs smooching. Not to mention the big one. Who I feel like I’ve barely seen this week. I hate crossing paths, barely. I hate when we only sink into each other’s arms in bed. When the entire day is parceled out.
Not all days are like this, but Tuesdays for some reason often are.
What was your Tuesday like? And also, what would you be like if left to your own devices?
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September 11th, 2007 @ 11:20 pm
Full of neediness from others. I tried to deliver in helpful ways that also didn’t leave me depleted -but that’s always a challenge. Errands after work. Finally home and a bowl of lucky charms. Later followed by a delish salad. Now embarking on a film I’ve been curious about for some time: Conversations with Other Women. The last three things are more my own devices kind of activities. Also, some meditation beneath the stars later will set me right….Thanks for asking!
September 12th, 2007 @ 3:21 am
Even those of us who are super-organized often feel as if we are still getting the hang of it, and struggle to stay afloat some days, especially on days like this. I’d sleep all morning and stay up super late, if I was able to
September 12th, 2007 @ 7:25 am
i think i would choose to
do what you would do
if left to own devices…
it sounded like so much fun!
my tuesday was like your tuesday…
and so was my monday.
but hopefully,
not my wednesday…
September 12th, 2007 @ 8:30 am
Last year I had “hell Tuesday”- no matter what I seemed to do or plan for the day would explode and by the end of it I was a wreck. I have not had that experience before where no matter what one day was singled out for trouble.
This year I am trying to figure out what to do if left to my own devices… it is somewhat harder than I thought it might be. I am not teaching this year and not really officially working at the moment- which sounds lovely… and is, but it is also very odd.
But I am happy to report that… so far no particular day gets me down. Maybe it is Tuesdays in school…. Good luck with yours and I hope that you have a wonderful rest of the week.
September 12th, 2007 @ 10:26 am
It was full, like yours, every moment framed in and bordered by every other moment. If left to my own devices I would be up at dawn with coffee, writing until my fingers were too stiff to write anymore, then reading under a tree or in a small boat or curled up on a couch, then drawing, playing, listening to podcasts or music. Bath, and bed. This has happened maybe three times in the last six years!
September 12th, 2007 @ 11:27 am
Tuesday was topsy turvy. Emotionally, mentally. The automatic routine stuff happened per usual (work, groceries, evening hang out time with H & DK). But the mental acrobatics were exhausting. Trying to maintain some emotional balance only to lose it later in the evening, alone with H, at a time when he was not prepared. The rest of the night was subdued.
Like Jen, I’m trying to figure out what I would do if left to my own devices. I’m going to have 5 days coming up when H is on the road and it’ll just be me. I foresee reading, watching movies on cable, catching up on posts I’ve been meaning to write, tackling some smallish house projects, pampering my feet, walking and christening a brand new journal.
September 12th, 2007 @ 12:46 pm
My Tuesday went a little something like this:
Get up early-ish. Ok. Sort of sleep in.
Check email while brushing teeth (no time to waste!).
Get ready for work while doing hair and make-up and eating cereal.
Drive to work at neck-breaking speed, because somewhere in the hustle and bustle time was in fact wasted.
Get to work and think about all the other things that need to get done at home.
Leave work and run fifty errands.
Miss out on walk on beach (insert sad face).
Work on things at home while eating nutritional dinner of brownies.
Leave for meeting at 7pm. I repeat 7pm!
Come home around 9pm.
FINALLY get to take a shower and plop into bed while watching Law & Order around 10:30.
Phew!
Unfortunately for me, I suspect all the following days will be similar to this one. Which is why I must sign-off as there are only so many minutes to this very parceled out day:)
September 12th, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
My Tuesday was spent mostly trying to do as little as possible because I was so damn sick (morning sickness that lasted all day). I never realized that a 2 year old would make my all around yuckiness even more exhausting. But it is all for a good cause.
BTW, I got to read your article today. I absolutely adored it. I have been reading your writing through this blog for so long that is was comforting to see it in print. I can’t wait to read a book that you have written. The way you write is so beautiful, the rhythm with its ebb and flow, and the pictures you create! I teared up at the end, a little embarrassing in a book store, but it was so real and touching. Congratulations, Christina!!
September 12th, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
My Tuesday: Reading Neruda to my Western Lit students, celebrating one month of weddedness at a Mexican restaurant.
If left to my own devices: when I am, I pour over poetry on the internet; I have recently become addicted to creation in a poetry blog (www.aviewfromthewayhere.blogspot.com), always searching for something new to read. I would walk in the woods, listen to the sound of the world crackling in the fall. I would sit in my living room without the dogs lapping my hands as I turned pages of a new novel. I would cook new recipes, try new foods. I would travel as far as I could, every day, and lock myself into cabins and hotel rooms, and write. And write. And write.
September 12th, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
My Tuesday was such that I took a mental health Wednesday.
And I plan to take a few of those this year. I’m getting no ‘reward’ from always being the diligent one…so I’m going to start being a self-caring one. 
September 13th, 2007 @ 2:02 am
My Tuesday was spent at university, standing around a big table with uncountable drawers filled with letters for hot type (funny that this is the English word for it – as the table was cold, cold cold), discussing a magazine layout for 5 hours. Falling into bed two hours earlier than normally, waking up to the first noises to be heard in the house, a woman leaving for work … not feeling entirely healthy. That’s the status quo.
I would probably sleep late left at my own devices. Wake up to a day full of thinking, not doing, and not feeling entirely happy with it. So actually, mostly I am glad I’m not left to my own devices, as like this, I am forced to develop a perspective for the day and get. on. with. it. It feels good in the evenings.
September 13th, 2007 @ 6:57 am
Very odd…my Tuesday sucked and I’m an Aquarius with some of the same issues you mentioned. I’m typing this as I’m running a little late this morning and sitting in the midst of a “reorganising” mess! Trying to be extra well planned at school this year though to feel that I’m somewhat in control somewhere. Although with 8th graders, I’m never really in control am I???? Thanks for sharing!
September 13th, 2007 @ 2:13 pm
pancakes for dinner sounds pretty dang good…
September 13th, 2007 @ 2:35 pm
so far this whole week has been a “Tuesday”… LOL
Left to myself…ah, sleep till 9 am, two cups of fresh coffee, while reading a good book. Then a long shower, a little shopping, some scrapbooking, seafood for dinner and top it all off with a great movie in jammies…
If only!
September 13th, 2007 @ 6:39 pm
Tuesdays? I’ve lost my diary and had the flu so I didn’t know if it was Tuesday or Wednesday, and which week it was! Every ten years my Tuesdays change – at one time it was a Fine Arts course at Deakin – and a fabulous life of painting all day and walking 5 k home past secretive houses. Earlier on it was rushed – family of five, teaching crafts in a metalwork room, church meetings at night and that was too busy. These days – a bus to a Not Quite Right shop, and stroll home looking into spring gardens (without rain) reading the Fiji news on the internet, trying to write a short story and the words meander wrongly, hearing stories from my husband recently returned from Fiji, cooking as little as possible.
w.
September 15th, 2007 @ 3:10 am
Hey! What’s purple broccoli?? I’ve never seen nor heard of it…just a new twist? I’m so intrigued!
September 15th, 2007 @ 12:58 pm
Ah, the thought of being left to my own devices is an overwhelming one, simply because it is so foreign:) If left to my own devices, I would read all day and dig in the dirt planting flowers . . .