Took a break

Allll righty. So today I fucked around quite a bit, which I think was perfectly acceptable, since I'm mostly caught up on everything. Well, not everything, but work work, at least. I did a small amount of inbox catchup, but I'm nowhere near done with that. I'll see what I can get done tomorrow. I did, however, sit down and work up a pretty strict schedule for this week, so let's see how that turns out! Perhaps ambitiously, I put two TH episodes on deck, but that may get swapped out for DH; I've got a meeting about that on Wednesday, so we'll see. There's also therapy next week, so I'm keeping Tuesday light. I think this should work out in theory, but this'll be the big test week to see how it goes in practice. I schedule time to exercise, time for a lunch break, all that good stuff. It also assumes evening working time, so that'll be a big test, too.

That's all stuff for the work week, though. As for today, the two big things were hanging out on Lexi's stream and going on a shopping adventure with T. Between those two things, I didn't really get to a hell of a lot else today. I tried keeping the stream as background while I worked on i/i, but really I should have known that I can't really split my attention that way. So, I dunno...got through maybe two thirds of primary inbox, and actually I had cleaned out YT the day before, so that's nice. But, yeah...I'll work on it tomorrow and see if I can psychologically handle bailing on the project before it's done if I run out of time first. So, very broadly, it's chores and dailies until lunch, and then work work after lunch and into the evening. Exercise is first thing after dropping T off. Feels like a good structure, so I hope I can stick to it.

There's a ZS storm brewing, so that took a little of my attention toward the end of the night (professionally, not personally.) That's about the only big disturbance today, though. Lexi's stream was fun, and I think she's looking at doing it again soon, so I hope that turns out well for her. T went on a tear tonight cleaning the house, so that was a thing. She was also planning a trip for this week (tomorrow night into Tuesday), but is scared of the snow forecast, so I'm not sure how that's going to pan out. Looking at my packed calendar...well, in one sense feels good, as expected when thing are organized, but in another sense I'm worried that I won't be able to live up to this ambition and/or I scheduled things too optimistically and/or I didn't leave enough wiggle room or time for breaks or whatever. I mean, I'm not that worried about the last one; I can take breaks if I want. It's just...keeping to the schedule will be the first challenge, and then a close second is not beating myself up if I can't keep to it. Gotta remember I can adjust the schedule if it doesn't work out, and it's not like I'm failing at stuff. Yet. ;)

Yeah, that's maybe a little defeatist. I'll try and keep a better attitude about it. But there's nothing to do except just see how it goes and see what I can learn and what I can improve. Until then, sleep beckons. Onward.

What kind of day has it been

With all due apologies to Sorkin for that title, I guess.

First day of the first week of trying out the new schedule. I'm gonna say it went less than stellar. BUT. That's not necessarily bad, and it's also not all my fault. ;)

So, the good. I stopped by the gym and took my first steps to getting a membership, so that's cool. Got, like...a trial pass which I'll use later this week, and I imagine I'm just gonna sign up after that; I can't imagine what would stop me. I mean, assuming I stick to the schedule and/or add it to the routine, which I fully intend to do.

The rest of the day didn't quite go according to plan. So...there was the ZS storm. Bigger than I thought, that's for starters. But also not necessarily in a bad way. He's been de-platformed by The Gauntlet and BigBadCon, that's just what I heard about today. Disavowed by KH, which honestly restored my faith in the guy, which I'd kinda lost, I'ma be real. MDT retracted the Two-Minutes Hate, which I thought was pretty big. I see writers and designers donating all their ZS money to charity. It's a whole thing. So the storm is raging, but that's fine. It also means I didn't focus as much on other stuff today, which is less fine, but it is what it is. At some point I realized I probably wasn't going to get to the planned pod editing, so I should at least finish i/i, but that didn't happen, either, so...blah.

Oh, so the other thing that happened that had me shifting plans around was that T was supposed to go on a trip tonight and into tomorrow, but that got canceled. And then I thought it was going to be replaced by houseguests, but that also didn't happen. So what I'm looking at tomorrow is T at home with a day off, so...I guess I'm just hoping I can focus on work. :) But there's also therapy tomorrow (in the morning) and the MM stream (in the evening), so...I dunno. My original plan scheduled Tuesday very lightly because I didn't really know what to expect, but the new plan now has a much heavier Tuesday and Wednesday.

Anyway. So, I dunno. If today was a test run, I hesitate to call it a failure. More like a "discard data" situation. Experiment was botched. :) I do know, though, that focus problems are going to be a real issue, so I'll need to either work with that scheduling-wise or really keep a handle on things. Or not, you know. I'm working on being more forgiving and patient with myself. This isn't fucking up, per se; it's a learning process. I think there's a pretty good chance I'm going to talk with S about that tomorrow. ;)

Anyway...bedtime beckons. And since T is off, I even get to sleep in a bit. :) Onward.