June 2009
Monthly Archive
Categories:
sleep,
Work
Posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 by cce
I am desperately trying to adjust my sleep schedule to complement my desired work schedule. Unsurprisingly, the past 6 months have been very lenient on my need to get to sleep at what my mother would call, “a reasonable hour.” My current contract isn’t exactly demanding early morning hours from me… but I do like to get work over with as quickly as possible and no matter how late I stay up that means I’d still rather be done work by noon or 2 p.m. I’ve made some progress in the past 2 weeks and I’m falling asleep about an hour earlier now. Of course, I want to sleep about 2 hours longer now too which is messing up my morning mojo.
It’s not even that I’m most productive in the morning. As a night person, I’m most productive and creative between 8 p.m. and 1 a.m. Okay, that might be due to training in college as well. I perfected writing the 10 page literary analysis in those 5 hours the night before it was due. (I’m older and wiser now and actually write rough drafts, I swear.) But work is work and I want it to be done. I like to get a jump on things before other folks are at their desks and I like to be done first. FIRST, I say! Too often I’ve ended up working from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. because “things come up” throughout the day preventing me from leaving. This is somewhat worse at home where it’s not so much a matter of leaving as it is a matter of finding time to get out of my pajamas, eat and maybe even stop work before dinner.
This is all coming back to me now, somewhat acutely, because in my current contract I’m working from my personal desktop computer. In the past I’ve had a “work machine” that I could pretend I would turn off at 5 p.m. Right now I’ve set up my work e-mail in Mail along side my .Mac e-mail. I have a couple of heavily-tabbed Firefox windows open for work purposes as well. (On top of this, my computer is not the most spry of creatures and I abuse Firefox horribly with the 6 million tabs I usually leave open.) So far I’m doing a good job of not falling into the too-man-hours trap on this contract but I am feeling the omnipresence of work stuff in my world.
Ultimately, the problem is that my desire to get a jump on work and be done first gets me up in the morning while my desires to hang out, read, play games and … um… ramble on foolishly in a blog keep me up too late at night. I will break this cycle! I swear!
Right after I finish editing an article I’m writing that’s rather late…
My wise words for the day are: If you get the funny feeling you should back up your files: DO IT. Either the Universe is warning you of impending doom or your subconscious is telling you your documents have become too important to lose.
backups, sleep, work
Categories:
Cats,
comics,
Monster Cat
Posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 by cce
Categories:
Gardening,
Travel,
Uncategorized,
Work
Posted on Sunday, June 28, 2009 by cce
Just reassuring you I exist beyond providing regular doses of Monster Cat. ;) This is one of the roses from out front. I cut the all the blooms off this bush and put them in a vase in the kitchen to save them from the painter guys who are supposedly painting the porch. The kitchen has smelled of roses all weekend!
Summer is totally here. It’s hot. I finally got my seedlings into the raised beds out back. It’ll be a late harvest I should get some tasty peppers. I also planted some mint, basil (less than last year!), cukes and peas. We’ll see if the latter 2 come up. They’re going to be very crowded where I put them but hopefully I’ll end up with tasty snacks. Next I need to start splitting the houseplants … the houseplants that reside on the sun porch… in the sun… in the hot summer… oofa.
I have a new contract that was in place for a whole week before it changed rather radically. Never a dull moment, right? It’s interesting and different than past problems… but kind of the same too. Everything always seems to come down to communication.
Monster Cat himself (because it’s hard to exclude him, ever) has been through lots of cat scorn-provoking tragedy lately. He seems to be on the mend now but he spent a very expensive weekend at the vet’s last weekend. Don’t tell but he’s going in for a follow-up Monday morning. He will adore it.
Speaking of last weekend, while my cat was howling away at the hospital, I went up to NH and MA for a wonderful bridal shower book brunch! (By the way, if I’d thought of the book brunch bridal shower thing before I got married, I might have not ducked out on that part of the tradition!) The loveliest ladies attended and it was indeed an elegant affair. I had a great time at the brunch and hanging out with the fabulous Juli throughout the rest of the weekend. Juli, for those who don’t know, has the best shopping karma on the planet. She shares it. She rocks. I have a great little black dress with flowers embroidered on the hem as well as some other lovely things from our escapades. She also sent me home with a stack of books to add to my “To Read” pile. What a wonderful weekend!
gardening, photographs, roses, travel
Categories:
Cats,
comics,
Monster Cat
Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 by cce
Categories:
Cats,
comics,
Monster Cat
Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 by cce
Categories:
Cats,
comics,
Monster Cat
Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009 by cce
Categories:
Cats,
comics,
Monster Cat
Posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 by cce
Categories:
Cats,
comics,
Monster Cat
Posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 by cce
Categories:
Cats,
comics,
Monster Cat
Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 by cce
Here’s a little sympathy from Monster Cat to get your week going. He’s totally planning to go out for the Olympic team as well… as soon as his petition to have yawning added to the games goes through.
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cats, comics, monster cat, silly, tennyson, yawn
Categories:
Cats,
comics,
Monster Cat
Posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 by cce
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