沉潛期Slowing Down

寫部落格的速度，似乎隨著秋天的腳步而慢了下來。和前一陣子發狠用力寫相較之下，九月還真是乏善可陳。秋涼人懶？說穿了，其實是稿子來不及趕。典型「不到黃河心不死」的心態，看一下手邊的書，再翻一翻月曆，如果不卯起來趕稿，手上這本書大概不可能如期交件，加上多了一台鋼琴來瓜分剩餘無幾的時間，總是得捨掉一些原有的活動，在網站上爬文的時間自然就少了點。
My blogging speed is slowing down along with the coming of autumn. Comparing to the “production” of the passed few months, September is just slow. The autumn atmosphere makes people lazy? Well, honestly speaking, it’s all because I’m way behind my working schedule. Looking at the book and then the calendar, I really have to speed up, otherwise I won’t be able to hand it in by the end of the month. Besides, there’s a piano to “divide” the very few leisure time I’ve got, I just have to give up something to gain something… So the surfing time and writing time is sacrificed.

回想起來，每年秋冬似乎是我網路的沉潛期，從搬到義大利以來，沒有一個冬天不在趕稿…
Thinking back, I seem to step into hibernation every autumn and winter. Since I moved to Italy, I spent every winter on translating books…