What I Can Destroy With a Hammer
I used to work the night shift at a grocery store – first stocking shelves, and then working the cash register. I worked a full shift and was on my feet all night. If I was stocking shelves, I had to bring up boxes from the back stockroom, unpack the stuff, and put it in the right spot. If I was working the register, I had to ring up purchases, answer the phone, bring in the shopping carts, log all of the film that had been dropped off to develop, and clean all of the registers. Generally, I would come to work directly from two- to four-hour rehearsals. I finished most of my shifts exhausted.
I have learned recently that finishing a major writing project takes a little bit more out of me than a shift at the grocery store did. I’ve finished two big writing projects in the past three days and started work on a third. It makes me glad I learned touch-typing long ago – because I don’t think I have the energy for hunting-and-pecking right now.