An Exhausting Week

 I succeeded to finish the revision of the essay for the eo-edited journal, and email it to the editors. This week, that has been my major success. Part of the busy academic life rests on the fact that we need to juggle multiple projects. Add to this my creative projects, the political projects. What it comes down to, is the fact that at any given time I am dealing with a crazy number of writing projects. I can't work on a single project for too long during the course of a day. What works for me is to set smaller chunks of the day to each and every project. I normally give myself a target to fulfill -- a certain number of words when I am working on producing the first draft, a certain number of pages when I am doing the editing. This enables me to feel like I am doing justice to my many interests. And, there are might be times, when a revise and re-submit will show up at your doorstep, when you are already over-burdened. As it happened this week. However, I have succeeded to work on the revise and resubmit piece. I will email it to the editors as soon as I am done writing this post. 

However, then, there are days, when I simply need to admit the fact that I am tired, exhausted, over-stretched. And, I won't be able to fulfill all the writing goals. I won't be able to work on each and every single project during the course of the day. And, then, there are times when life will have bigger concerns. Like, taking care of medical issues. Like going to a protest rally. Like meeting friends for a cup of coffee and adda.

Today, Bina Pishi tested positive. The next week the priority will be to devote  to her recovery, and monitoring myself, my family and friends. And, in general, staying sane.