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January 29, 2010
Making the Money (and the Adjustment)
Right now my life is all about the making of the money. And I'm mostly glad. But I'm also a little sad. I miss so many little things, like:
• being able to run errands and have doctor's appointments on weekday days when most everyone else is at work,
• eating out on weekday days when restaurants tend to be less busy, making the atmosphere quieter and the service often better,
• sleeping through 5:30 am,
• napping after lunch,
• and just generally having the flexibility to make up my day's schedule as I go along.
Ah, those were the days. Those were also the broke days. But still.
Plus, now that I hardly have time for anything but paid-work Monday through Friday, I'm not getting anything else done. Writing, especially, has suffered from the lack of available time. Part of me is too tired to care. But the rest of me laments the loss of creative time.
I realized on this morning's commute that if I want to make any progress on my writing goals, then I'm going to have to sneak more personal-work into my paid-work days. Not into the actual on-duty time, 'cause that's not okay, but into the fringe time: the space between arriving at work and my actual start-time, and my lunch break. I also need to squeeze more work out of my evenings. Problem is that by the time I get home, cook dinner, and eat dinner, I only have another hour or so before my brain starts to shut down for the day. But maybe I can accomplish some low-brain-power tasks in that twilight time.
It's either that or give up altogether.
Posted by Selena at January 29, 2010 09:01 PM