You know what? I just realized that I haven’t read anything strictly for pleasure and not work-related for months. And this is just wrong. So here is what I will do. I will force myself to get a really silly, just-for-entertainment book (like this one, for instance) and read it. And I will not feel guilty over the 20+ work-related books I urgently need to read and annotate.
So here is the challenge: read or watch something completely and utterly fun and unproductive.
This will be the hardest challenge for me because April is just insanely busy for any academic and for me especially because I now have a second job. And I need to prepare my tenure dossier. And buy a house. And move. OK, I need to stop freaking myself out now and just breathe. And then:
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Out of all self-care challenges I found this the most useful. I have this really ridiculous tendency to make even pleasant tasks such as listening to music or reading or playing computer games into a grim-eyed duty. A wonderful side-effect of the unproductive carefree fun thing is that I ask myself way more often whether or not I’m actually enjoying the fun I’m having, and I can use the challenge as permission to switch activities if it turns out I’m not actually having fun. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how this can break masochistic loops.
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