4/14/2019 0 Comments What duck?my favourite author has a minor character in a handful of his books called the Duck Man. He walks around with a duck on his head that no one talks about because when they do say something like "what is going on with the duck on your head?" he looks a them seriously and replies, "What duck?" The subject gets dropped and the characters move on to the matter at hand. my duck is called Down Time. Even when I have it, it's like it is really not there at all. They say that if you want something done you should ask a busy person to do it. I know I work best when I'm a busy person. It's the momentum; once the schedule is full there's no time to waste and adding one more extra little thing is easier to do. Then, before you know it the dryer has been the go to place to find non matching socks and the food shopping hasn't been done properly for weeks and you've got 8 packages of large shell pasta because the other grocery shopping person in the house keeps buying it but no other pasta types just shells.... the key is keeping up the momentum but balancing out the other stuff. The alternative for me is to lose the momentum entirely and be at a loss for what to do. I sometimes think that the secret to keeping the balance is to become so busy that even if you say no to one or two things the crest is still there and you can still be riding a wave. I'm at about that spot now but the laundry is still behind and we're going to be eating shell pasta in tomatoe sauce again this week for dinner one night. Half of my lesson plans and supply lists are done for Spring and Summer. All of my spring term classes programed with the Shadbolt Centre are done, Summer programing and workshops I'm being offered as we go are next up. The lastest addition which will be added to the lessons and workshops page as soon as I can get to it, is a pARTy@PdA event at Place des Art called Palette-eat,paint-create! on May 10th. for now you can lick this link to see details and buy tickets. Today is all about administrative catch up. I should really be more on top of it but the call of clean laundry, socks and underwear keeps getting inthe way until there's nothing for it but to hunkerdown between wash and drying cycles declaring folded clothes will have to wait. After that I really need to update the student gallery and then there's the.......
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