Everyone has different baselines of work whenever they’re working. I have figured out that my baseline of amount of work produced in a day of work, is usually about 5 hours, and then I’m kinda tapped out for the day.
Right now, I’ve been pushing this 5 hour amount for the past week, or thereabouts.
We came back from Melbourne last Tuesday Night/Wednesday morning. We slept into half the day, because of the weird flight time, and then by Wednesday afternoon, I was churning sketch paintings for an artbook that I needed to finish by Friday. I painted about 15 paintings by Friday itself, and I laid out the images and printed by Friday afternoon.
I immediately started work on my other artbook, a pixel zine, but the Saturday itself was an activity based programme at work, so I was actively engaged, but not able to do my creative work until I came home at night. I did draw on transit, but I don’t work so well on the move.
I finished up all my images on Sunday, and Monday morning I laid out the book. Then printed by Monday afternoon, and started work on the next book.
Right now, my brain is so tapped out, I actually feel like I might be going crazy with the amount of thoughts that are floating around in my head.
This morning (Tuesday), I spent an hour trying to make coffee, hand wash clothing, and lay out more images for another book all at the same time. I realised that nothing was making sense, and of all things, my logic said, layout more photos first. So I finished another few images, saved the file, then went out to finish making my coffee, and took the wet clothes out of soaking to hang them up.
The work muscle in my brain is so pulled and stretched, it physically feels like I did a work out with my brain, and my brain itself is sore.
Sleep has not be the best, but it has been adequate, because I tell myself, if I take naps at the right times, then I would be able to work faster when I wake up, and it’s been mostly true.
But man, this is a beast of a work mode, and I still have actual administration to finish up thereafter. There is just so much to do.
There’s still an afternoon of meetings tomorrow. The plan is to take a break on Thursday and actually not do any work. I just hope I make it to Thursday with the work completed.
Wish me luck.
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