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Jul. 20th, 2007 12:17 pmI have been really busy lately. It feels good to be really busy again. It feels like I have regained a piece of myself that I had lost.
It’s funny that we always talk about being less busy as a goal, taking some time to breathe. Job searching isn’t really breathing. It doesn’t count as vacation. It’s too stressful. I get so much more done when I am working and have a lot to do. Having nothing to do and no schedule makes me feel transluscent.
Wednesday evening I went to the grocery store after work and got some chores done, yesterday I biked back to work and back(14.4 miles) to see how long it would take me (45 minutes to get there, 1.5 hrs total). The hills are a lot steeper than the hills I am used to tackling around lake phalen, I think that’s why it took me so long. If I give myself an hour and a half before I want to start work, I should be able to do this.
After biking I inhaled some tabouli and went over to corrin’s. we chatted and dug up some raspberries instead of knitting. Some of those raspberry bushes are in my garden now, competing with the creeping charlie for space. I will have to weed to make sure they grow. Tomorrow I will go kayaking with susan and hopefully begin reading the new harry potter book.
I realize that I miss school. I miss the provocation to think about things deeply. Sure there are plenty of things in the news that could take you to abstract places, but that is so practical!@. I’m not very good at practical. I like to go straight for the abstract thought and the global perspective….and then I’m bored once I get there because I am familiar with my positions on things. They don’t excite me as much as conversation with other ideas. I look forward to taking a class again this fall. I need to get my butt going to make arrangements for that. Right now I am leaning toward an introductory preaching class in hopes that public speaking practice will cross-over into being good for me in the long run. Also it is 4 credits and in the evening and I think dean birch will accept it.
i also miss having more music in my life. i haven't been practicing my instruments much. when i was unemployed and had lots of time, i was too depressed to play. now that i have much less time? of course i want to play.
It’s funny that we always talk about being less busy as a goal, taking some time to breathe. Job searching isn’t really breathing. It doesn’t count as vacation. It’s too stressful. I get so much more done when I am working and have a lot to do. Having nothing to do and no schedule makes me feel transluscent.
Wednesday evening I went to the grocery store after work and got some chores done, yesterday I biked back to work and back(14.4 miles) to see how long it would take me (45 minutes to get there, 1.5 hrs total). The hills are a lot steeper than the hills I am used to tackling around lake phalen, I think that’s why it took me so long. If I give myself an hour and a half before I want to start work, I should be able to do this.
After biking I inhaled some tabouli and went over to corrin’s. we chatted and dug up some raspberries instead of knitting. Some of those raspberry bushes are in my garden now, competing with the creeping charlie for space. I will have to weed to make sure they grow. Tomorrow I will go kayaking with susan and hopefully begin reading the new harry potter book.
I realize that I miss school. I miss the provocation to think about things deeply. Sure there are plenty of things in the news that could take you to abstract places, but that is so practical!@. I’m not very good at practical. I like to go straight for the abstract thought and the global perspective….and then I’m bored once I get there because I am familiar with my positions on things. They don’t excite me as much as conversation with other ideas. I look forward to taking a class again this fall. I need to get my butt going to make arrangements for that. Right now I am leaning toward an introductory preaching class in hopes that public speaking practice will cross-over into being good for me in the long run. Also it is 4 credits and in the evening and I think dean birch will accept it.
i also miss having more music in my life. i haven't been practicing my instruments much. when i was unemployed and had lots of time, i was too depressed to play. now that i have much less time? of course i want to play.
