Thursday

[electricland]

On Thursdays Jen has a class, so it's just me and Blue. It's quiet around these parts, but it does help me overcome my fatal tendency to gravitate towards the other person in the house and do what they're doing. This was a problem for me in university -- my flatmate in second through fourth year, Lisa, was a music student, which meant that she mostly did her "homework" in the practice rooms at the faculty of music. Whenever she was home was her down time. Lab-report-writing, complex-topic-wrestling, chemistry-major me found it waaaaay too easy to just hang out in the kitchen with her instead of doing what I was meant to be doing (all too often: phys chem lab reports, statistical mechanics, and spectroscopy). These days I have a similar problem: Jen tends to be home earlier than I am, I like hanging out with her, she lives on the ground floor (no stairs!), and she usually watches TV in the evenings. Sometimes it's even TV I want to watch! Oh, the fiendishness of it all!

It's compounded by another problem I've had for a number of years: not really considering my time between work and bed "important". I leave work late and mooch around downtown window-shopping. I've been a bit better about this since I got Blue, but I'm still not great, which only compounds the problem above (heck, sometimes I've barely got home before the GOOD TV starts).

I'm not going to flunk any classes by sitting on Jen's couch, but nevertheless I'm working on getting at least a few things done in the evenings. This evening I:
- read and made notes on a chapter for my exterminator course
- changed my sheets
- cleared out a box of hastily-tidied odds and ends that's been hanging around since Christmas
- changed the batteries in two of my smoke alarms
- did my accounts

The trick is to get home early enough take an hour to do at least some of this on regular evenings. Haven't been doing so well at that lately, even though I set alarms on my cellphone and everything. Maybe next week...

Comments

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Oh, those hours between work and sleep. I find that on a workday I'll assign on errand then mostly dash home just so I can actually be at home. I'm something of an introvert anyway....but some days it feels as if the entire day is consumed by the external world.

Er...sorry as this has turned out to be something of a me!tangent.

Youv'e given me thinky thoughts about how precious time is, and how this world affects that. I hope you'll have time for yourself as well as keeping up with the stuff of daily life. *hugs*