Time is valuable

[voislaterre]

Sometimes I feel like I’m stretching myself too thin. It’s just the coursework that I’ve been doing though now that I think about it. I have these enormous papers and projects to complete and they take up large portions of my time and mental capital, but then I use every other minute in the day for something else important like going out to Swing or Tango, working, spending time with Arri, sleeping and then there are the other smaller things like reading, painting, writing in this journal, learning the guitar, watching films.. these are things that I would like to do but usually don’t have the time for. Somedays I remember that I used to have more free time, though it doesn’t seem possible now :) I’m done with my Masters in a few months but then I’m going to directly start my PhD program. I guess this means that at this point I have at least another 2.5 years of this kind of schedule (being distracted in many directions) before I can slow down a little. Oh and I will slow down btw. When I finally look for a position that uses the PhD, that is going to be a huge part of the criteria. I don’t want to do long hours, I don’t want a job clear on the other side of town, I want lots of vacation and sick time and the job itself I don’t want to be super hectic or stressful. Maybe this is a lot to ask for but then again maybe not. I’d be willing to sacrifice a higher salary for all of these things anyway, buuut I digest. We’ll just cross that road when we get there.

I guess there are just a lot of things that I want to do and I've been pretty decisive lately. If there is something that I'm making the time to do then it's something that is usually pretty important to me.