{"id":18080,"date":"2019-07-29T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=18080"},"modified":"2019-07-29T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:57:10","slug":"productive-but-anxious-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2019\/07\/29\/productive-but-anxious-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Productive but anxious weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This weekend, I started off with a goal of dealing with at least three of the four or so highest-priority anxiety-inducing things I was avoiding dealing with.<\/p>\r\n<p>I ended up dealing with only two of them. (And not dealing with the most important one, a day-job thing that\u2019s now very late and that I really need to focus on today.) But I also made significant progress on three time-sensitive projects. Overall, a reasonably satisfying outcome.<\/p>\r\n<p>I think there were three main factors that helped me reach that outcome:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>I increased my Lexapro dose. I\u2019ve been on 10mg a day for quite a while; last time I saw my therapist, I mentioned some increased anxiety and they asked if I wanted to increase to 20mg, but I said no. But I tried 15mg on Saturday and Sunday and it seemed to help; I felt a lot less stressed about the things I had been avoiding, though still avoidant.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Both Saturday and Sunday, KTO and I spent quite a while doing sort of virtual coworking\u2014a voice call, but with not much talking, and both of us working on separate things, like meeting at a cafe to write. We called it Anxious Productivity Club.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I stayed mostly off Facebook.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\u2026I also got a couple of other to-do-list items done in the procrastinatory interstices: finished shifting some bookshelves around, filled out the form to register for carpool-lane stickers for my Tesla, went back to Duolingo after many months away, checked on <cite>Hamilton<\/cite> dates in San Francisco (it\u2019s running until at least January! Lots of tickets still available for performances later in the run!), etc. So, a pretty productive weekend.<\/p>\r\n<p>Also managed to not leave the house the entire weekend, except briefly late last night to fetch mail and look at my car\u2019s registration card. Good introvert downtime.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18081,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions\/18081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}