Tired.

Boy, I am worn out. It's been two years since I had a vacation that wasn't a working vacation. No, that's not exactly true, but sharing a cabin with your entire extended family, while fun, is not exactly the same as private downtime. For the last two years most of my days have been 12 or even 16 hours of work/school/volunteering. I have spent all of my vacation days going to school events, or going to conferences to forward my knowledge of my chosen career. I have work 40hrs a week, class 4 hrs a week, homework 15+ hours a week, and have volunteered at least 5 hours a week almost every week since June. Also about 1 to 2 hours a day are spent reading professional development literature like websites/listservs/professional magazines, so that's another 10 hours a week, which doesn't overlap at all with work, because I don't have internet access at work. It doesn't really count as part of this list, but I also spend about 5 hours a week working out, and if I don't do that all the sitting these other activities require can lead to some real pain. It's important to preserve your body! Which means I've also been trying to spend fewer lunch breaks sitting reading and more lunch breaks taking 2mile walks.

Before I started school, I was planning my wedding, and before I was planning my wedding, I stage-managed a play, and was out until 1AM several nights a week.

I could really use a week or two where I only had 40 hours of commitment a week. Or even 50. 50 would be a nice change.

I'd settle for one weekend with no homework, no volunteering, no books that had to be read for reviewing, no deadlines. I wonder if grownups have weekends like that. If I'd realized how rare they were going to be, I would have savored them more as an undergraduate or high schooler.