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Don't do it... be it.
Jul. 18th, 2005 03:56 pmI'm surrounded by doing. Hundreds of jobs orbit around me, some worked on, some ignored. Underneath it all I'm fighting for a little room to be. Inch by inch I'm hollowing out a new set of foundations, though I wish I hadn't started building during the storm. Large chunks of the past few weeks are still taking form - I have to grow into them, before I can understand the changes that are happening. That will take a while, though - for now, I'll just write about some of the blizzard that flies around me.
Any attempt to plan too far into the future is meaningless; too many variables scour away all that looked solid when I set out. For me, the Spike seems to be about two weeks... project any further than that and the best-laid plans will dissolve into static when reality hits them.
I have fuzzy goals now - once made, I let them lose definition to make sure they survive. I know what I want to do with them, and I know more-or-less how I'll do them. When they happen is no longer as important - relative dates (this task before that one) still hold, but setting milestones in absolute time has only made me feel worse about not finishing things on time.
( Folio )
( Event management )
( Science communications )
In other news, I've been learning the first Wudan Tai Chi form since finishing the International 42. It's drastically different from Sun, Yang, Chen and Wu Tai Chi, and from virtually anything else I've ever learned - far more intricate and complex than the mantis styles, and on par with Liu He Ba Fa for the number of subtle components to each technique. It's eerily intuitive though - I think techniques from Wudan have been hidden in the last few years of warm-ups, so we've been drilling this style for a long time.
I'm working on my strength and balance at the moment, trying to cross the fine line beyond which it's easier to keep going than to stop. I've been leaping all over the place, and walking along every railing I come to :) With my knees bent (it stops me from using them for momentum) I can now do seven chin-ups - two weeks ago I had trouble doing four properly... 10-12 used to be standard though, so I have a long way to go yet.
Any attempt to plan too far into the future is meaningless; too many variables scour away all that looked solid when I set out. For me, the Spike seems to be about two weeks... project any further than that and the best-laid plans will dissolve into static when reality hits them.
I have fuzzy goals now - once made, I let them lose definition to make sure they survive. I know what I want to do with them, and I know more-or-less how I'll do them. When they happen is no longer as important - relative dates (this task before that one) still hold, but setting milestones in absolute time has only made me feel worse about not finishing things on time.
( Folio )
( Event management )
( Science communications )
In other news, I've been learning the first Wudan Tai Chi form since finishing the International 42. It's drastically different from Sun, Yang, Chen and Wu Tai Chi, and from virtually anything else I've ever learned - far more intricate and complex than the mantis styles, and on par with Liu He Ba Fa for the number of subtle components to each technique. It's eerily intuitive though - I think techniques from Wudan have been hidden in the last few years of warm-ups, so we've been drilling this style for a long time.
I'm working on my strength and balance at the moment, trying to cross the fine line beyond which it's easier to keep going than to stop. I've been leaping all over the place, and walking along every railing I come to :) With my knees bent (it stops me from using them for momentum) I can now do seven chin-ups - two weeks ago I had trouble doing four properly... 10-12 used to be standard though, so I have a long way to go yet.
