Hit books. Wash self. Pet kitties. Repeat. (Don't mix up the verbs.)

I'm feeling pretty good about how hard I'm hitting the books. And in general, tackling all the stuff that needs doing. In some ways it's easy to manage, as there are only a few really big things that need to get done right now, so it's not about remembering a milling things, but just 4 or 5 big things that need all my attention, one after the other, or sometimes in parallel. But it is a bit more complicated than that, there are another 8-10 smaller things I have to keep up at the same time. It's kind of like juggling. All these small things like keeping my body washed and fed. They need a little bit of time, regularly, or bad things start to happen. You can't just wash yourself really good once a week.

The sunset is quite beautiful from my office window right now. despite it all, I still try and get out for a few minutes in the morning to enjoy the beautiful fall weather. It's important. One of those deathbed things. Meaning, if I look back on it from my deathbed, I'll be sad if I don't take the time to look at the sunrise, listen to the birds, pet the kitties, hug the wife. Though I'm not getting up early enough for the sunrise these days, but at least the morning light.

The main thing keeping me up late is the... I don't know how long it takes, I should probably time it, my shutdown ritual. I review all the things I'm juggling, the deadlines coming up, and decide on my list of things to do tomorrow, and take care of any loose ends I need to, before going to bed. It keeps me up a little late if I don't start early (and I'm usually working until late, so I can't start on that early) but the reduction in stress it causes, because I'm not worrying about forgetting something important, seems to be worth the late wake-ups. Though I do really miss waking up earlier. Today I'm doing it at 5pm, which is like 4 hours earlier than normal, so that's good, but it's because I've got games tonight, so not indicative of a pattern yet.

Games night was a tradition I started in grad school, to keep me sane. Kinda nostalgic.

OK, lets see if I can get a good picture of the pretty sunset-time view out of my office first...

doesn't quite do it justice. I need a faster way to transfer photos from my dedicated camera to my computer. The phone is just so much faster and more convenient...

anyhoo, enjoy ;-)

-I Out

P.S. if you don't understand the title of this post: here's what not to do: Pet books. Hit self. Wash kitties. (maybe you could argue for washing the kitties, they are filthy. But you try washing a cat that doesn't want to be washed.)