If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen an insane amount of tweets in the past week, particularly between the hours of 9 and 12 at night. Most of them probably include the hashtag #GoatWatchingShift.

That’s because for the past week, I’ve signed up for that shift. Right now we’ve got someone watching the goats 24/7, and if I get the 9-12 I usually don’t have to take any other shifts.

For me, my shift usually means sitting down in my chair with my computer and working for three hours. Except I don’t get much done, because I’m too busy tweeting.

I sit down with a goal in mind. “Okay, I want to get 3 blog posts written.” I’ll say, and three hours later I’ve gotten maybe half a post. Unfortunately, during those late hours I have trouble concentrating, and I find myself doing other things.

For example, one night I sat down and wrote a scene from the novel I’m working on. It wasn’t what I was supposed to do, but that’s what I wanted to do. So I did it. And I had a blast! But it wasn’t doing the stuff that needed to be done.

I’ve been doing a bit better recently. I wrote the majority of this post while on one of my shifts – a bit of it at a time. In between the tweeting, of course. 😀 So if some of it seems a little weird, that’s probably why.

If you’re interested in seeing the tweets from my shifts, you can see them on my #GoatWatchingShift page.  🙂