Pressure

There's so much to do! So many, many things of equal stature demanding attention, and some of them will surely be neglected. It's not fair. This commentary for 'Night Shift' has been sitting around waiting to exit the editing stage for weeks now, and being consistently foiled! The TEFL online content still hasn't been started, and paper corrections can't be put off forever, and nor can proofreading on a tight deadline. Something is surely going to give way!

Pressure, pressure, pressure. It's entirely imaginary, you know. There shouldn't be any stress at all. In fact, if you can just clear your mind and reach a central balanced state there isn't any pressure. What pressure? Obviously, it must be absent at the moment, as a sane person would be buckling down to dig away at said chores at this very moment, instead of trundling through the writing of yet another Quirky Muffin and accumulating even more time pressure down the line. Is it gone? At no point have I ever claimed to be sane, and if you don't believe that implication then remember the positive posts I wrote about the movies 'Supergirl' and 'The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou'!

Pressure can be overcome if you're determined to not go crazy from things which don't actually matter at all. Work shouldn't cause pressure. It's just work, after all. No matter what else you might think, it's not worth the price of getting sick, and it does go an awful lot easier if you're not worrying about it. If only that lesson could have been learned before or during the five year PhD that never ended! Sometimes it feels as if it is still going on. Perhaps it is, and this is all merely a distraction. Could that be correct? Could this be a daydream? Oh, what madness it is to dream that life is but a dream!

Today's diversion to the diversion is 'The Man From UNCLE: The Green Opal Affair'. What a remarkable show UNCLE was in its first season. By all accounts a rotating wheel of producers wrecked the consistency of later seasons, but let us table that talk until an educated post can be made of it all. Now, it is time return to the horrific chores currently being postponed

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