Comments on: Sigh… still here… again http://cretaegus.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/sigh-still-here-again/ Life in the slow lane Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:33:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Steph http://cretaegus.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/sigh-still-here-again/#comment-137 Steph Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:54:35 +0000 http://cretaegus.wordpress.com/?p=256#comment-137 Boy, I don't even have kids but this SO rings true for me, too! (My dog is totally pushy all day for attention and needs to be taken out several times and to get at least one walk in, and my husband can be a kid, too, so really, it's the universal cry of the freelance editor!) Especially lately for me, with my friends and family. In fact, I can feel such a rant coming on, and I was just bitching about it to Colin today, about one particular friend who seems to be turning a deaf ear to what I'm saying and plowing ahead regardless. I don't want to write out my rant, though, it's just too much. Basically, I too feel I am not taken seriously, and it is REALLY getting to me. So I hear you in this. And I absolutely have no answer for it. It's hard to ignore the phone and email and other interruptions all day long. Especially when everyone takes offence. I was away at a choral concert yesterday in Toronto, and Saturday I worked. When I returned the house was not cleaned and laundry had made it as far as the bedroom door. I didn't clean the house but I did end up doing the laundry today. I suppose all I can do is try to work more efficiently, which, it's true, I'm not doing, so when people and dogs do interrupt, I feel I can afford a few moments for them. Boy, I don’t even have kids but this SO rings true for me, too! (My dog is totally pushy all day for attention and needs to be taken out several times and to get at least one walk in, and my husband can be a kid, too, so really, it’s the universal cry of the freelance editor!) Especially lately for me, with my friends and family. In fact, I can feel such a rant coming on, and I was just bitching about it to Colin today, about one particular friend who seems to be turning a deaf ear to what I’m saying and plowing ahead regardless. I don’t want to write out my rant, though, it’s just too much. Basically, I too feel I am not taken seriously, and it is REALLY getting to me.

So I hear you in this. And I absolutely have no answer for it. It’s hard to ignore the phone and email and other interruptions all day long. Especially when everyone takes offence.

I was away at a choral concert yesterday in Toronto, and Saturday I worked. When I returned the house was not cleaned and laundry had made it as far as the bedroom door. I didn’t clean the house but I did end up doing the laundry today.

I suppose all I can do is try to work more efficiently, which, it’s true, I’m not doing, so when people and dogs do interrupt, I feel I can afford a few moments for them.

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