Wow, Heather, wish I could make myself turn in that early. Ten's about as early as I can manage.
Another fine day today. I do need to figure out, pronto, why I only seem to string together good days when I'm not teaching. So, pardon me while I think on screen here. So I often find during the school year that I find myself without time to eat breakfast and/or without a packed lunch. Also on days I teach I sometimes find myself not getting home until 9, which means I don't have time to exercise until it's almost time to go to bed.
So, it seems obvious what I need to do: make sure I get to bed early enough, plan each day's food in advance, make sure I pack lunch and remember to take it with me. But of course if it were as simple to do as it is to say, I would have done it already. So, let's take it further--disorganization is the root--too much work, not enough structured time to get it done in, too many commitments and too much grading.
So, before school starts, I need to plan a schedule that includes a lot of my activities, and I need to stick to it, which probably means spending some time grading or at other activities outside of my office. Also, before school begins, I need to finish getting my office and home organized/decluttered. I made good strides at the apartment here this weekend, but I need to find time to get the office in shape.
Wow. That was actually helpful. It wouldn't have occurred to me before that scheduling time to work out of the office could be related to weight loss, but it is: when I'm working in the office, people stop by way too often to chat, the day goes by without me accomplishing much, I feel harried at home and spend all my time on work for school, go to bed exhausted and too late, wake up too late, skip breakfast, eat out of the vending machine between classes, order out for lunch or don't eat at all, feel exhausted by dinner and eat comfort food, and the cycle goes on like that.
Does everybody find these things this complicated?
Angela
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