Time Flies...

When I started my new job, the contracts which make up the bulk of my job hadn't been handled by any one full-time. I've spent the last few weeks figuring what contracts we have, which have been started, whose been working on them, and where all the paperwork associated with them is. It's the kind of thing where I could stay until midnight every night and there'd still be plenty to do the next day.

Suffice to say I've been staying as late as I can...that being until I start to worry that the dog needs to be let out and fed. Less time has forced me to prioritize and organize the rest of my life. Lists get written every day and often on the way home I'll stop off to pick something up because there's simply no other time to get it done. As a result, I'm being ridiculously productive outside of my professional endeavors. In fact, I'm getting more done.

The mail gets sorted every night when I get home. The bills get paid immediately. The junk mail goes into the trash or gets shredded. Dinner gets started and trash gets dumped while dinner is cooking. My evenings are scheduled and efficiently carried out up to point of bedtime at 11 pm with thirty minutes of reading. It's go-go-go all day long.

Today, Saturday, has been my first real "free" day since I started working - in the sense that I hadn't scheduled anything - save for a cultural event in the evening, followed by a quick meal afterward. With this in mind, I slept in until ten, took a shower, and decided that I was just going to SIT on the couch and watch TV.

I plopped down and started to tune into This Old House on PBS. Within a few minutes I was anxious, but NO, I was going to SIT. I needed to SIT.

An hour and a half later I'd trimmed my cuticles, filed and polished the nails on my hands and feet, applied face moisturizer, rubbed my legs down with lotion, plucked my eyebrows, flossed my teeth, dusted everything within reach of the couch, and made a mental list of all the things I needed to do when I got up.

Apparently I can sit right now, but sitting still will be an effort for another time.