Stress and Busyness
So today, Sunday, is my day off. And I am spending it in a haze of self-induced stress, because I have SO MUCH TO DO that I am dithering away the time I need to do it. That's the problem with my current schedule (one of them, anyway): I have only two days off, and I have to cram all of my non-scheduled errands and tasks and organizing of life into them. I have four committments in addition to work on various days of the week, which means my evenings are generally spent being tired and not wanting to do much. It got to the point where I wasn't (and I'm still not to an extent) putting anything away ever, because I just feel like I don't have the capacity to deal with things.
I cleaned out my closet last Sunday, and my dresser on Tuesday, and that was a large improvement. A whole big garbage bag of clothes to give away and half a garbage bag of clothes to throw away. But my desk is still a pigsty of monolithic proportions and oh, how I want to get it clean these days! But today I have to listen to my voice lesson tape (which perhaps could be postponed til tomorrow), practice, do the laundry, figure out my cursed cell phone bill, do quite a bit of email correspondence, read up on a college program my voice teacher is suggesting, and find and submit applications to at least two universities. And I don't think that's all possible in one day! (Especially cosidering it's already 5:00pm.)
And of course I'm here on Livejournal whining about it. But sometimes I just have the worst coping mechanisms for stress, I swear... Imitating an ostritch has not served me well so far!
I cleaned out my closet last Sunday, and my dresser on Tuesday, and that was a large improvement. A whole big garbage bag of clothes to give away and half a garbage bag of clothes to throw away. But my desk is still a pigsty of monolithic proportions and oh, how I want to get it clean these days! But today I have to listen to my voice lesson tape (which perhaps could be postponed til tomorrow), practice, do the laundry, figure out my cursed cell phone bill, do quite a bit of email correspondence, read up on a college program my voice teacher is suggesting, and find and submit applications to at least two universities. And I don't think that's all possible in one day! (Especially cosidering it's already 5:00pm.)
And of course I'm here on Livejournal whining about it. But sometimes I just have the worst coping mechanisms for stress, I swear... Imitating an ostritch has not served me well so far!