Life in the Slow Lane

[beetiger]

One hour, twenty minutes seems to be the commute time, more or less. I puttered around at a Duchess, which seems to be some sort of fake McDonald's or something, to pass the extra time before I was supposed to arrive.

My car passed the 100,000 mile mark on the way there this morning. It seems silly to call it "rolling it over" these days, since the display handles six digits fine.

Given eight hours work, three hours commute, and eight hours sleep, that's only five hours per weekday to write, cook, and otherwise live my life. Is this acceptable? I'm not sure.

I'm going to try to keep up with journaling. With any luck, there'll be as much composed thoughtfulness and fatigued rambles like this.

Comments

[tygermoonfoxx.livejournal.com]

Make sure you take that time for yourself to do creative things or you'll burn out. I know it's a pain to be on a schedule like that and I know how awful it can feel when you have things you want to do but neither the time nor the energy for it. Take care!

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

i don't know if mike mentioned it to you, but my instant reaction to your new schedule was to suggest you try to get one day off and work a 10 hour day 4 days a week OR see if you can make one day "paperwork day" or "phone day" or something and work from home that day (for mike, this turns out to be SATURDAY *roll*).

another one of those good things about being a contractor is that you might be able to work those hours more easily than mike does. if he could cut his commute down by only working 4 days a week, i bet he'd do it in a second.

i had actually said (facetiously, mostly) that if you could figure out a way to work one day from home, and commuted with Mike on Tuesdays, you'd have your drivetime down to 3 days a week, which sounds a lot more doable. but "real" life, i suppose, has to be more complicated than that. *wry grin*

chris

[sapphire-d.livejournal.com]

Deffinitely. You have a job where there's a shot of working from home perhaps.. or something like that. There's gotta be something, too, that you can do in the car if you're having to drive all of that. I've found that I just 'trance out' when I'm driving along and just kind of 'wake up' somewhere else, having told a story to myself... one that sticks. I know it's not that much, because being in a car during a commute is not that entirely fun, but there are creative things that one can do during it. :)

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

It's a pity there isn't mass transit available there. Being able to scribble in a notebook while I commute has made my life as a drone (er, no racial slur intended O:) ) in Boston soooo much better than it was in Seattle. Just promise yourself that you'll use the extra money to buy yourself a little freedom when this assignment is up.

Speaking of little freedoms, there's still that matter of which weekend would be good for you... :) In the meantime, consider books on tape. :)