Current Quandary

I’ve been going back and forth all day, trying to decide whether to haul my laptop with me to the Turks & Caicos Islands or abandon all attempts at productivity.

I always envision getting some writing done when vacationing — on the plane, in the early morning — yet somehow it rarely happens. By the time the flight gets to laptop-allowed altitude and I get into a groove, it’s time to put it away. Once at our destination, instead of my fingers on the keyboard I find my toes in the sand and my nose in a book (and quite often a frozen drink by my side). So then my laptop sits in the corner of the hotel room, like a slab of guilt weighing down my vacation. Who needs that killjoy?

Still … we’re talking three days of unscheduled opportunity — I could get so much accomplished. If I felt like it. Will I feel like it? Minimally, I could keep up with emails and the online class I’m taking. But is that worth schlepping a laptop to paradise?

And it would be nice to simply relax, and to not have any distractions from relaxing. It’s important to be in the moment, right? Especially when the moment is here:

Okay, that’s settled.

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