[AE.Disability] Perhaps planning for failure is also part of planning for success.
So, to briefly continue on the theme of plans...
I woke up this morning with a clear plan for my newsletter today, including not just an idea but an outline, and sources to reference, and other possible sources to consult, and a schedule for doing this that would help me keep my current streak of week-daily updates alive and continue building on the themes of self-exploration and self-improvement I've been working with.
I've been playing with a draft of that newsletter since before lunch, and it started out strong, but... well, yesterday I referenced a well-traveled saying about how failure to plan constitutes planning to fail.
Today I'm going to bring up another such saying on the same subject, which has a similar combination of murky provenance and high profile.
And just to forestall even the wellest of actuallies, I am aware that it was used as a John Lennon lyric, but it predates him:
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
In any event...
I'm tired, in the way that always makes me feel sick, though this time I'm pretty sure it's just being tired. I've been napping in the afternoon to cope with fatigue and aches from fluctuating temperatures, and it caught up with me today.
When I said that I woke up this morning with a plan... well, unfortunately, I woke up at four in the morning, and then spent a good hour and a half proverbially tossing and turning before giving up and getting up to get an early start on my day.
From there, the expected and accustomed rhythm of my day has only continued to deviate, and I'm now at the point where the physical effects of four hours of missed sleep are quite debilitating.
Which means that I need to take another nap, irrespective of whether this further impacts my sleep schedule.
This is far from a disaster, and I'm writing this newsletter as an exercise in keeping the streak going through unexpected upheaval rather than one of self-recrimination.
This is life happening, which one must expect when dealing with plans, probably on account of all the laying.
Today's original draft -- about the nature of play, The Gilded Age, tea parties, and roleplaying games -- will still be around tomorrow for me to polish up and tie it off with a bow.
In the meantime, I'll share a tweet that I made in anticipated conversation with it:
https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1499112183095042053
And now, I rest.