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Round And Round We Go
Oct. 9th, 2007 08:45 amHow can it be that I'm barely working two days a week, and I'm still so overcommitted that I barely have time to eat, sleep, and breathe?
Relief work is taking a little while to ramp up, and I need to remind myself that it was this way the first time I started, too. At least this time I seem to be having no trouble finding interested clinics on my own - they just all want to book me for next year. Not a problem, I thought to myself. It'll give me time to unpack and set the house up all pretty and nice. We'll be living like real live homeowners in no time.
Except that we can't unpack the boxes until the shelves are in place, and I can't put the shelves in place until the furniture is set up in the final location, and I can't put the furniture there until the electronics are set up, and I can't set up the electronics until the electrician comes. So instead I putter around aimlessly, unpacking one book or adjusting things from one box to another.
There are birds nesting in the rhododendrons in front of our living room windows. The cats find this simultaneously fascinating and frustrating.
This past weekend was hella-crazy-full, but not nearly as terrible as I had anticipated. In spite of the fact that I was supposed to be helping floor-GM a game this weekend, I wound up spending most of my time playing cast characters, which was honestly good for my soul - with the troubles I've been having in games recently I was starting to worry that I had lost my ability to roleplay, but after an hour or so of burrowing deep into a miserable, weepy, angsty character and reveling in it, I feel like my RP batteries have been recharged.
After that came teaching at the SCA Novice Schola, and when the heck did I mutate into someone who looks forward to teaching? Admittedly, the two classes I taught were both ones I've taught before, so prep was more or less limited to printing out my cheat notes and remembering to borrow the sound system, but even so. Both classes were very beginner-heavy, which is a new challenge that I'm working on learning to handle, but I think the students enjoyed themselves, which is what matters.
This weekend isn't too overscheduled at the moment, which unfortunately leaves me with a dreadful feeling that I'm forgetting some major event or responsibility. I have no doubt that time will fill up, but meanwhile I'm going to daydream a little about sleeping in, baking applesauce bread, and maybe going to a movie....
Relief work is taking a little while to ramp up, and I need to remind myself that it was this way the first time I started, too. At least this time I seem to be having no trouble finding interested clinics on my own - they just all want to book me for next year. Not a problem, I thought to myself. It'll give me time to unpack and set the house up all pretty and nice. We'll be living like real live homeowners in no time.
Except that we can't unpack the boxes until the shelves are in place, and I can't put the shelves in place until the furniture is set up in the final location, and I can't put the furniture there until the electronics are set up, and I can't set up the electronics until the electrician comes. So instead I putter around aimlessly, unpacking one book or adjusting things from one box to another.
There are birds nesting in the rhododendrons in front of our living room windows. The cats find this simultaneously fascinating and frustrating.
This past weekend was hella-crazy-full, but not nearly as terrible as I had anticipated. In spite of the fact that I was supposed to be helping floor-GM a game this weekend, I wound up spending most of my time playing cast characters, which was honestly good for my soul - with the troubles I've been having in games recently I was starting to worry that I had lost my ability to roleplay, but after an hour or so of burrowing deep into a miserable, weepy, angsty character and reveling in it, I feel like my RP batteries have been recharged.
After that came teaching at the SCA Novice Schola, and when the heck did I mutate into someone who looks forward to teaching? Admittedly, the two classes I taught were both ones I've taught before, so prep was more or less limited to printing out my cheat notes and remembering to borrow the sound system, but even so. Both classes were very beginner-heavy, which is a new challenge that I'm working on learning to handle, but I think the students enjoyed themselves, which is what matters.
This weekend isn't too overscheduled at the moment, which unfortunately leaves me with a dreadful feeling that I'm forgetting some major event or responsibility. I have no doubt that time will fill up, but meanwhile I'm going to daydream a little about sleeping in, baking applesauce bread, and maybe going to a movie....
