The Aerie

Sometimes Stuff Works Out

I'm 'way overloaded. My job usually calls for ten-hour days or more, then there are household chores, obligations, etc. It does make the time pass quickly, but it's exhausting. A couple of weeks ago I left for work on Tuesday morning, and didn't get a break in my schedule until Friday morning - every hour in-between was me doing something somewhere...

This weekend was no different. My Biology course called for two lengthy lab exercises to be carried out - lab exercises that required days of preparation beforehand, and days of execution thereafter (one of the labs is a fermentation lab). The only problem was, I needed to work on my job over the weekend.

So I spent the weekend conducting my multi-part lab. I cooked spit and crackers with blue solution, and boiled eggs so I could dissolve them in pineapple juice. Then I tried making yogurt, but despite scalding the milk perfectly, I apparently killed the yogurt by pouring the hot milk directly into the jar - although that's what the instructions said to do. By the time I fininshed cleaning up after my kimchee preparations, it was Sunday at 4:00. After a nap and dinner I spent the evening ironing clothes in front of the Academy awards. I needed the clothes ironed - I was out of shirts that didn't look like dried up washcloths - and I appreciated having something endless and mindless to do while ironing. It takes about 30% of my brain to watch the Academy awards, and about 30% of my brain to iron, so 40% of my brain was able to take a nap.

That's how busy i am, my brain is taking naps in shifts.

So I came into work today with none of my preparations ready for my 9:30 meeting. Oh well, I thought, I'd fake it.

Then my boss pulled both of us off any project related activities, because of internal billing problems...

So here I sit, my schedule cleared, able to blog, with none of my preparations necessary, at least till this afternoon when the billing issues have been worked out...

Not that I'll be ready then, either! Still, every hour that passes is one hour closer to my three-day weekend writing retreat... yay!

Posted by Albatross at February 25, 2008 10:29 AM | TrackBack