Hey, thanks so much for your responses to my last post. I actually almost got up in the middle of the night on Friday to delete it, because I started feeling freaked out and vulnerable. I’m grateful for your comments.

So, the upcoming weeks are pretty much the busiest and most stressful of the year so far for me. I’m hoping to finish a revision, prep for then teach my Writing & Illustrating for Young Readers class, host a houseguest, and pack up to leave home for a month. And of course do normal stuff like eat, sleep, and work out. There are not enough hours in the day for all that needs doing.

Therefore, obviously, all I want to do is  organize my closet, read cookbooks and create imaginary menus for dinner parties I’ll never have, spring clean, bake bread, nap, and plan vacations that will never happen. I don’t know what that is. Maybe it’s the subconscious acting out denial, or some psychic blowout preventer trying to tell me it’s too much. I know it probably happens to you, too, sometimes. What kinds of tricks does your subconscious get up to when you have a hard task ahead?

I play tricks back: I tell myself I can do anything I want after I do the 37 things on my list for the day. That moment never comes, sucka! My subconscious usually falls for it anyway.