{"id":594,"date":"2013-12-02T20:51:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/?p=594"},"modified":"2013-12-02T20:56:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:56:40","slug":"the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2013\/12\/the-list.html","title":{"rendered":"The List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"list\"<\/a>I almost always have a List in progress. I add to it as household tasks occur to me, or recur throughout the week. Every week or so I start working on a new piece of paper. Every day, a subset of the List is The List for the day.<\/p>\n

I’ll start reciting it as I’m getting ready for the day. “Today I just have to….” Often this includes some subterfuge, eliding some details about later tasks so that the list doesn’t take terribly long to rehearse — I’d never get out of the house and off to work if the list sounded too long. Throughout the day, this rehearsal of The List continues until I’ve either done the things or decided not to do them. Nearly every day, as I reach the end of The List for the day, a new List takes over — the List of all the steps involved in going to bed (a surprising and sometimes utterly daunting number of steps).<\/p>\n

When my health is playing me up, The List might include all the steps included in getting to work in the morning, and later all the steps involved in getting home. In between I’ll try to be realistic about capacity and deadlines, and The List will include only the bare minimum, even if that’s just “be there and be pleasant” during the day, or even “call in sick and rest until tomorrow.” Those then become my mission, necessitating firm control of my expectations and activities for the day. Resting can be hard work, too.<\/p>\n

I didn’t get through The List today, but one of the goals can be accomplished tomorrow without penalty, so that’s the new plan. Tomorrow I just have to….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I almost always have a List in progress. I add to it as household tasks occur to me, or recur throughout the week. Every week or so I start working on a new piece of paper. Every day, a subset of the List is The List for the day. I’ll start reciting it as I’m … Continue reading The List<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}