2C (not two cents)

14th October 2009

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ow! my eyes!

i have eye strain. it’s happened before when i work too many hours in a row, too many days in a row. usually, we’re talking more than two weeks straight and more than 12-14 hours per day. oh, wait. that’s been my life these last few weeks.

i’ve been reading a lot. a couple of books and a handful of articles per week. plus around 200 pages of student writing per week. i’ve been writing a lot too. all of it on my computer. it’s all fun and games until someone puts an eye out.

as usual, i need to figure out how to balance my work and my life. if permitted, i will do nothing but work and sleep.  and not so much with the sleep. i’m not a perfectionist, i’m more a revisionist. i think of whatever i’m doing at the moment as the first pass. it can always be polished, rethought, more effective, whatever. i’m perpetually trying to get better at the things i do.

and i like the challenge.

but i haven’t spent much time with JJ lately. i’ve skipped too many Monday nights with the girls. i’m skipping game nights and Thursday nights because what i’m doing now is new, and i’m invested in the learning curve.  it’s a shiny, new challenge for me.

i’m probably not going to even want to check my impulse to learn new skills and ideas. that’s just too much to ask of anyone. but i think i need to set some limits on how many hours a day i’m devoting to work. and when midnight rolls around and i decide i’d rather keep going thinking about sleep, i’ll try to check that impulse at least half of my nights. speaking of midnight … g’night.