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4:30 am and i'm UP! Phone call at 5 am, to be followed by another phone conference at 6 am, and then one at 8 am. Defintiely working the east coast time zone today.
I got to bed quite early last night helped along with warm milk and a shot of Godiva chocolate liqueur, my usual rituals (sounds of the ocean playing, a couple hands of solitaire on the phone), and Christine reading in the bed next to me.
So, woo, i've had plenty of sleep, why doesn't everyone just randomly start work at 5 am?
Sarcasm aside, i don't think i resent this, after doing operations and getting paged awake at all hours. But getting up so i'm ready for 5 am start is a teensy bit early. End whine.
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I've had a small epiphany as i rapidly skim through my friends list and lack time to engage. There's something about the tidal surges of my work life that make the engagement with others, socially and with care, hard for me. I know it's why i like asynchronous connections -- letter writing ages ago, to email, to journalling here. The journalling though has a touch of semi-syncronous to it: should i reply to this week old comment? Should i read back out of the stream? The stream -- the friends page and email queue and so on fill up while i'm fully engaged with work and other commitments. So, yesterday, i started work in the morning and then ran off to a committee meeting and then was home to sleep and the back to work (and i'm stealing a moment here to help center myself). I might take time *for myself* and to catch up on other responsibilities, but before i engage socially i need to clear a space.
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Well, we're going to have to leave that there.*
[because hours have passed and i'm a completely different person now]
* I'm hoping for a huge uptick in sarcastic use of that phrase to shame CNN out of using it, after recent Daily Show episode. However, i know better to hope that CNN will move to fact checking and challenging the absurdities.
I got to bed quite early last night helped along with warm milk and a shot of Godiva chocolate liqueur, my usual rituals (sounds of the ocean playing, a couple hands of solitaire on the phone), and Christine reading in the bed next to me.
So, woo, i've had plenty of sleep, why doesn't everyone just randomly start work at 5 am?
Sarcasm aside, i don't think i resent this, after doing operations and getting paged awake at all hours. But getting up so i'm ready for 5 am start is a teensy bit early. End whine.
***
I've had a small epiphany as i rapidly skim through my friends list and lack time to engage. There's something about the tidal surges of my work life that make the engagement with others, socially and with care, hard for me. I know it's why i like asynchronous connections -- letter writing ages ago, to email, to journalling here. The journalling though has a touch of semi-syncronous to it: should i reply to this week old comment? Should i read back out of the stream? The stream -- the friends page and email queue and so on fill up while i'm fully engaged with work and other commitments. So, yesterday, i started work in the morning and then ran off to a committee meeting and then was home to sleep and the back to work (and i'm stealing a moment here to help center myself). I might take time *for myself* and to catch up on other responsibilities, but before i engage socially i need to clear a space.
***
Well, we're going to have to leave that there.*
[because hours have passed and i'm a completely different person now]
* I'm hoping for a huge uptick in sarcastic use of that phrase to shame CNN out of using it, after recent Daily Show episode. However, i know better to hope that CNN will move to fact checking and challenging the absurdities.