Accomplishment Junkie
19/5/06 09:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsI was raised by a man whose family's unspoken mantra was "what have you done today." This didn't mean, how was your day or what happened to you today, but rather, Have You Justified Your Existence By Accomplishing Things Today. My father's family are terrific, but they are doers, and I grew up with a vague sense that if I didn't have something concrete to show for my day I was a bad person. (Neurotic much? Why, yes, thank you.)
So now I'm in research mode, and the one thing I can say about research (aside from the fact that it's fun, and my brain is currently chock full of information on early medical education) is that at the end of the day I have nothing concrete to show for it. So I wind up compensating by doing very concrete things around the palace. Yesterday I made a cake, and then we made homemade pasta for dinner. I think my sudden passion for quilting (I hope to post a photo of the Wiscon Guest of Honor quilt soon) is part of this too. All I can say is, I hope I get out of the research phase of this project before we're all the size of Kansas as a result of my culinary accomplishments.
So now I'm in research mode, and the one thing I can say about research (aside from the fact that it's fun, and my brain is currently chock full of information on early medical education) is that at the end of the day I have nothing concrete to show for it. So I wind up compensating by doing very concrete things around the palace. Yesterday I made a cake, and then we made homemade pasta for dinner. I think my sudden passion for quilting (I hope to post a photo of the Wiscon Guest of Honor quilt soon) is part of this too. All I can say is, I hope I get out of the research phase of this project before we're all the size of Kansas as a result of my culinary accomplishments.