Figuring out priorities

[redbird]

I need to think about priorities, given the amount of time this job+commute is using.

Some of it is easy: self-care, which includes enough sleep and enough time of taking it easy though awake. cattitude. Other people close to me, but that's more complex than it sounds: for example, rysmiel and I had been exchanging large amounts of email, but I won't be online during the day and that's the only time Rysmiel is, so that conversation is slowed and, probably, changed somewhat by slowing.

I need to resist the temptation to give priority to things because they're now-or-not-at-all. For example, dinner Thursday with Farah, Lenore, and Lise was a lot of fun, and I said yes to it before I knew how much energy I would or wouldn't have. But this was the first time I'd met Farah, and I can and do see a lot of Lise, and there's no practical reason I couldn't see Lenore another time, though somehow we never seem to get together.

Mindfulness and balance.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Are there things you can do during the commute to make this easier? I wouldn't be able to function without a laptop computer to use on airplanes, for example.

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[papersky.livejournal.com]

There's absolutely no reason Rysmiel can't be online in the evenings if he wants to be, I'm rarely using this computer then.

[redbird]

I don't feel like asking Rysmiel to rearrange patterns that much; if things are going to be re-jiggered anyway, the telephone becomes tempting.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

My first thought is that having a conversation slowed can be an improvement ...

Good luck; I can relate to these problems.

[redbird]

In this case, we already have the built-in pauses of email, which is asynchronous (and because rysmiel is multitasking, from work, not just talking to me); being forced to slow it down this much doesn't seem to be an improvement.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

"Work is the curse of the thinking classes..."

I'm still recovering from just two weeks of work, which finished 8 days ago...