18 January 2008

Something really freaky happened today... I reached the end of my to-do list at work! This might have happened once before, but not in January, surely! Last year I was studying for exams half the time, and during November and December was putting off whatever work was long-term enough to focus on cramming for the exams; today I am officially caught up! Maybe I will even fish out some of the totally obscure and virtually shelved miscellaneous jobs, or print off some funky labels or something. It's a similar feeling to getting that new Paperchase journal home and opening it to write for the first time, like I've been given something perfect, something whole.

I suppose it's only time, after all. You make plans for it, fill it up with stuff, or it gets taken over by unexpected events or invaded by that long list of lingering should-dos. All time is blank until you act in it, and until it's passed you can always change your mind about how to spend it. But this moment here, in the present - it is still perfect, still replete with potential.