Back to treading water

I awoke early this morning thinking about my US tax situation again. ( I am frustrated that it is taking several months to obtain a simple but important document. )

I took today off work as we are all soon off to the Dundee Waterfront to visit the RRS Discovery and the V&A Museum Of Design; the children have been inside neither. With my early start I suppose I'll feel tired for it but it should still be pleasant and interesting. It's a nice morning but is forecast to become a bit rainy at times.

My life seems back to keeping on top of things but not making anywhere near enough useful progress. I need to be better at doing important things that are not yet urgent. I am back to measuring my achievements in terms of trivial chores like if I am bothering to hang up my clothes or use an interdental brush as part of my bedtime routine, hence my recent failure to say much here. It's hard to even get the headspace to try to figure out my issue: when I do have spare time I feel enough tired in a zoned-out kind of way that I don't even bring to mind easy things I could do. I am either busy with tasks, whether at home or at work, or just trying to recover from them.

While this doesn't explain my lack of productivity at home, there is a fair bit for me to watch on television at the moment which at least affords welcome distraction. Having now finished Stranger Things (2016) we are working our way through the latest of shows like Dark (2017) and Legion (2017) before returning to the last of Jessica Jones (2015).

V&A Dundee

I made it around the V&A Dundee fine. Design can be interesting but I usually judge most of what I find in fancy art museums to be pretentious rubbish; I often prefer the less-highlighted or -promoted stuff one sees up around university art departments. In this case among the exhibits there was more interesting than not, at least for me, together with a decent amount of explanatory text, so it easily surpassed my low expectations.

I have mixed feelings about the building itself. Outside it's uglier than inside. They occupy a lot of prime real estate from which they could have gotten rather more useful square footage while leaving it still fairly light and airy: for all that space I think it could have been better used. I don't wholly hate it though: among other things there are plenty of friendly assistants around, an abundance of bench space for resting and, with the adjacent firth, there is a nice balcony facing it and through some of the windows one may look down onto the water's surface.