The Task Master

I finished another tea towel. This one is for my uncle and his English wife so I assume she will know what these things are for. Their kind generosity made my latest obsession possible.




Everything has been so chaotic since school got out for the summer break. Ive been entertaining guests, participating in local festivities, and trying to regain my crippled heath. Since Mr A has left, Stephanie has appeared and I have been in perpetual motion. I received her in Bangkok and we began our journey to the north - destination Chiang Mai, which is rumored to have the super most fun Songkran celebration in Thailand. We went through Lopburi (a town completely besieged by monkeys), Phitsanulok (to see the Chinnarat Buddha pictured here) and ended up in Chiang Mai where the moat water was already flying. We ended up at a party with some local lawyers and cops. Its a long story but I lost my D&G sunglasses to a cop who was walking around with a bucket on his head. Gonna go ahead and assume he was drunk.


Ive been thinking lately about all the stuff I have to do with my life and how theres just not enough time, at least not without efficient planning and/or forward thinking, to do all of it. Or most of it. I remember driving around in the rental car in Okinawa and Italian Guy & My Chris were talking about all these video games that they play and I was thinking "how in the world did you two have time to become bilingual, get stellar grades, travel around the world, read a bunch of literature, AND play video games to the point where you are almost frighteningly nerdy?" Italian Guy says that its all about time management. As long as you have good time management skills you can get all sorts of stuff done with the 16 or so hours that you are awake in a day.
I have 5 more months in Thailand. I have 5 bazillion things to do before those 5 months are up. Some of them are exclusively Thailand things such as studying Thai language and researching Thai art, and some arent so much (embroidery bazzar). I have the GRE to think about and an upcoming trip to Hawaii and I need to learn how to cook and how to get a job that pays me more than 300 bucks a month....
Im kind of over the stressing out thing. Any tips on efficiently organzing one's day?