Time

[serene]

My weekly schedule:

Monday: Get up at 6. Take pill, shower, dress, pack snack/breakfast. Leave at 7 for Cal. Work 7:30 until 11:30. Come home for lunch. Go to WCRC at 1:30 and volunteer until 5. Go home and relax for a few minutes. Make dinner. If there's energy left, work the second job. Get to bed by 10.

Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday: Same thing minus the volunteer job.

Thursday: Cal, lunch with stonebender, home, laundry, dinner, second job, bed.

Saturday: All-day date with stonebender

Sunday: Attempt to catch up on everything that has slipped during the week and manage to spend some time with someotherguy.

Stuff I also do every day: Get a little housework done; spend time with wtfpotatoes; spend a little time online (a real little lately, but still, some); work on financial and menu planning.

It's a lot, but so far, it's working out. It does mean I don't have much free time, but in exchange, I don't have any aimlessness in my life. :-)

The one thing that's really helping me to hold it together is to make myself go to bed eight hours before I have to get up. The one day I didn't do that, I kind of fucked up my brain for a day and a half. I learned my lesson. Which means I need to be in bed within the hour.


Some things that are helping me to feel not-overtaxed:

1) The job is really not stressful at all. I know the people; I know most of the tasks; I am constantly treated well and with great gratitude by my bosses.

2) I have time to read on the bus. Having time to read makes my life feel happier.

3) I have a boyfriend who's willing to come out to Berkeley for our midweek date instead of my going to his place, which saves me hours on a weekday that I would have trouble not fretting about.

4) I set my own hours, so I am able to go in early enough that I'm home before the household has really gotten going, and that means I get time with my family even though I'm gone for a few hours every day.

Comments

[firecat]

In your copious spare time I'd love to hear a bit about what you do in your volunteer job and what you think of WCRC in general. (You may have already posted about that, in which case just tell me to JFGI.)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

It's the Women's Cancer Resource Center (which you might already have known, and you might even know Margo Rivera-Weiss, who works there and is fairly visible in fat/queer circles).

I answer phones in the INR office, which stands for Information 'n' Referral. People call asking about their diagnosis, or wanting support groups or financial help because they or someone they know has cancer, and I look up the answers for them, or just talk to them. While I'm not answering phones, I call and check in on anyone I talked to last week or the week before, until they don't need checking in on any more. It's surprisingly joyful most of the time, and then it's not. But mostly, I really like it. It's unsupervised work that matters, two of my favorite qualities in a job.