Kate, what are you going to do with yourself when you're not in school/not so busy/not juggling so darn much stuff?
I've heard that question a lot lately -- mostly in a more-or-less-joking way -- and I have to admit it's kind of nice to daydream of a day, seven months from now (OK, OK, probably more than that with the big "T" -- thesis) when I will have no commitments whatsoever. Other than maybe a job, but that's no biggie.
At the same time, I usually pop out of the daydream and break into a cold sweat when I think about not having a mile-long to-do list every single day, to not use every last second from the time I wake up (too early) to the time I go to bed (too late).
And then I find myself counting, adding: Well, if I get home from a job around 6 p.m., I could go work out until 7. Make dinner, eat it, it's at least 8. Watch some TV, I guess, until 9 or 9:30. Then maybe some Internet time until 10. Then play with the dog? Have a snack? Wait for a respectable time to go to bed? Will I be bored out of my mind? And god forbid I have no plans for the weekends!
This is going to be one heck of a transition for me. Good thing I have plenty of time before it happens...
What do you do with your non-work time? How did you learn to relax after college, grad school, a million-hours-a-week job?
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OK, I can totally imagine that you'd be the first one bolting out the door from work at 5 pm, then drifting through the next 4 hours with dinner, etc. A whole half hour of Internet time -- wow, that sounds totally crazy, but it should be enough to exhaust you so you can fall asleep at 10?
I'm trying hard to imagine what life would be like if I used your "model", but it's just sounding a little, well, old.
Kate, are you really 75? (actually, just kidding -- I know some 75-year-olds who do more than that each day). Or do you just have too much time on your hands now, and you're trying to think of things to worry about to keep yourself busy?
OK, so maybe I was being a little dramatic... ;-) I guess what I'll really have to learn is how to do what I *want* to do, not what I *have* to do.
That is without question the greatest insight anybody could possibly have -- how to take all that energy and enthusiasm and ingenuity and throw yourself 1,000 percent into something you really want to do. And then the next thing, and the next thing, ad infinitum. What great adventures you're about to get into!
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