Day 17: You know what I miss?

You know what I miss? Having free time at my job because my job was silly easy. Back when I worked at American University in their Accounts Office I liked my job because I did so much of nothing. On retrospect I could have and should have used that time to better myself. I did sometimes. I edited a few videos during work and wrote some scripts and such. Not a total loss I guess. Lots of down time there though. I could make my business calls, sort stuff out with bills and whatever. It was nice to have pretty much all day every day to get stuff done that I wanted to. Man, now however I'm busy all day. I don't really even take breaks. I just get in, eat my breakfast which I pack, work till lunch, take too long of a lunch so I can get a workout in, and then work till close. About 8 hours of solid work a day, SOLID like no leaning back and stretching, nothing. Just 8 hours of intense starting. It kind of messes with the mind. But, got a lot of work done today so I feel like I am a little ahead of the game for a short while. Too bad it isn't anything that I'm clicking my heels about because I'm proud of it, more like I'm just glad I'm not stressed.

Workout went mildly today. Tried to overstress the chest and back muscles and nearly dropped the bar on myself. But still lifting a good amount of weight and feeling the "burn". Did some abs class as well. Was going to join Meg at the gym in the evening but I opted to relax on the couch cause I was tired from work today in a pretty serious way. I wonder if jobs that are thinking intensive, such as engineering, lead to a less interesting home life. Cause I mean the brain is a muscle and you can tire it out like anything else. I wonder if a job you enjoy would do that to you as well? Or one that has a more interactive aspect? Dunno, but it will be fun to find out.

Got an email from the Dean of the AU film school and read through it, had some suggestions for how to approach teaching as well as some reading resources online. So that is a plus, but now I need to read it. I still need to get my papers into a binder to be organized. SO much clutter. An idea I had is, well this requires a small bit of back story. In our house there are these tiles that used to go on the wall, they are a nice decoration. I asked Meg what we are going to do with them and she said that they should stay in storage because they do not go with the "theme" of the house. Now I'm not going to lie, that left me a little flummoxed as A) there are a lot of items that now fall into this "storage" and not "theme" category and B) what do you mean our house has a theme???

Well needless to say, I have a plan to make sure everything we own gets used so I feel better and Meg can keep her theme. I'm going to Applebees the crap out of my Office at home. That's right, everything that is not currently being used is going on the wall, all the fancy tiles, the picture of a turtle, random shelves. Hell I'm bringing out my turtle figurine collection. On the wall it goes. Old shirts. Pictures from when I was 5. I don't just "hang onto stuff" I put that crap on DISPLAY. It will be a pretty sweet office when I'm done, and probably relatively sound proof with all that crap on the wall. And matching is for SUCKERS.

Well, I must also say I like writing before bed, it tends to let me sum up my day better. Too bad I couldn't have a watch that would shock me at certain times of the day to prompt me to do stuff. Sometimes I need a little kick.

Wham!


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Oh prepare to be disappointed.
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