Nervous v. Concerned

All week I worked on states. It's getting fairly tedious, but I'm working on not letting it get to me. I guess that's what I've learned this week. How to work on something that you're not incredibly excited about and to not get bogged down.

It's not that I want to slack off, because that's the last thing I want to do. But every 20 minutes or so I have to stop, turn away from the computer and do something else for just a minute. Whether that is check my phone for messages, put on chapstick, or go refill my cup with water, it helps to just stop for a second. I can refocus and then get back to what I was working on.

Even with these little mini breaks I'm still beginning to loathe states. I feel like I can't find enough interesting things to do and say! States capsules aren't supposed to be about extremely well-known attractions so I have to find things that are a bit more obscure or just lesser-known. Which is difficult.

I actually started thinking that maybe I was losing the ability to write states well so I went back and rechecked out a previous issue of PTI. I wanted to make sure I still had the correct style going. I guess I did. I had to slightly change the tense I was sometimes using. But other than that, still all good!

Before leaving today I also checked with Matt to see if he was still satisfied with the work I was doing. He seemed pleased still! So that's good.

Hopefully next week I get to start on the feature article. Or at least find out more about it. I want to have enough time to work on it. I'm not going to say I'm nervous about it because I really don't want to jinx myself! So, I'm not nervous... I'm... concerned. Mildly concerned.