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serenissima) wrote2003-10-21 12:55 pm
serenissima) wrote2003-10-21 12:55 pm
not enough hours in the day (but plenty of parenthetical comments)
The cafeteria at work has garlic bread made with fresh garlic today. It's pretty good. :)
I've been very busy at work lately. We had a quarterly report due, which kept me counting names on attendance sheets and logging and charting numbers for several days. My boss & I stayed even later at work last week than we usually do. I've been a bit stressed.
I'm hoping that I will be able to leave work earlier. I was expecting that my cousin would take over carpool duty this week, but he's had to go in to work extra early, and he'll be out of town on several days in the upcoming weeks, so that leaves me to drive the crew around again. (People being transported include my cousin, my aunt, my boss, myself, occasionally a relative who works part-time for my aunt, and on the way home, another friend. So far, we've had a maximum of five people needing to travel at a time, fortunately for our seating space.)
I'm frustrated by my lack of leisure time. Generally we eat dinner within minutes of arriving home (since my uncle gets home earlier than us and cooks). After that, I have a couple of hours to go over my mail, do laundry, go shopping, read magazines, or whatever before my self-ordained bedtime. I've been getting about seven hours of sleep every weeknight, which is what I had in high school, and it's slightly painful just as it was then. I need eight. I like nine.
I have clothes needing attention: pant legs to be shortened, buttons sewn back on, or in desperate need of ironing, and I don't know when I'll get to them. (I don't like ironing, because I haven't gotten the hang of it and often put more wrinkles in while I'm trying to get others out.) I don't call my ex-roommates as often as I'd like, I don't keep up with email as well as I'd like, and I'm doing absolutely nothing on the career front. Trying again to study for the A+ cert (which I abandoned), or just writing some dinky little programs to stay in practice, would probably be good for me.
And practically the only time I have to call about apartment ads in the paper is my lunch hour, because apartment managers and realtors & such tend to keep normal business hours. I would rather spend my lunch hour websurfing or doing creative writing (while eating), and it'd be healthier for me to take a brief walk outside. Lunch time is also the only time I have for exercise outdoors, since I don't like walking around outside after dark. And gym membership costs, so I'd like to avoid that. Even the local YMCA has a significant membership fee.
So, yeah, need more hours in the day. And Chris, yes, you've already told me your opinion on this issue.
I've been very busy at work lately. We had a quarterly report due, which kept me counting names on attendance sheets and logging and charting numbers for several days. My boss & I stayed even later at work last week than we usually do. I've been a bit stressed.
I'm hoping that I will be able to leave work earlier. I was expecting that my cousin would take over carpool duty this week, but he's had to go in to work extra early, and he'll be out of town on several days in the upcoming weeks, so that leaves me to drive the crew around again. (People being transported include my cousin, my aunt, my boss, myself, occasionally a relative who works part-time for my aunt, and on the way home, another friend. So far, we've had a maximum of five people needing to travel at a time, fortunately for our seating space.)
I'm frustrated by my lack of leisure time. Generally we eat dinner within minutes of arriving home (since my uncle gets home earlier than us and cooks). After that, I have a couple of hours to go over my mail, do laundry, go shopping, read magazines, or whatever before my self-ordained bedtime. I've been getting about seven hours of sleep every weeknight, which is what I had in high school, and it's slightly painful just as it was then. I need eight. I like nine.
I have clothes needing attention: pant legs to be shortened, buttons sewn back on, or in desperate need of ironing, and I don't know when I'll get to them. (I don't like ironing, because I haven't gotten the hang of it and often put more wrinkles in while I'm trying to get others out.) I don't call my ex-roommates as often as I'd like, I don't keep up with email as well as I'd like, and I'm doing absolutely nothing on the career front. Trying again to study for the A+ cert (which I abandoned), or just writing some dinky little programs to stay in practice, would probably be good for me.
And practically the only time I have to call about apartment ads in the paper is my lunch hour, because apartment managers and realtors & such tend to keep normal business hours. I would rather spend my lunch hour websurfing or doing creative writing (while eating), and it'd be healthier for me to take a brief walk outside. Lunch time is also the only time I have for exercise outdoors, since I don't like walking around outside after dark. And gym membership costs, so I'd like to avoid that. Even the local YMCA has a significant membership fee.
So, yeah, need more hours in the day. And Chris, yes, you've already told me your opinion on this issue.