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It is having too much to do, and not enough time to do it.
Last night we went to a dinner party in celebration of a friend completing his PhD. He is quite popular in the department here at uni, and well loved by the mining company his research was in collaboration with. That company tried to hire him, but he has decided to stay in academia, and is staring a post-doc position at our uni. I was NOT surprised to hear that my boss managed to find funding to keep him in the department; not only is my boss very good at obtaining funding, this particular researcher (not student, anymore!) is very talented and would be an asset to any department, so, of course, we want to keep him here.
But all that was just background to explain why the party was so fun--I really like most of the people in the department, and there were a few people at the party I hadn't met yet whose company I really enjoyed. The party started at 18:00, and after what seemed like a short, but intense evening having really interesting conversations with one small group or another I started noticing that I was getting tired. Eventually I looked at a clock and determined that the reason I was getting tired is that it was well after midnight, and I had been up since 06:00.
Therefore, even though we were having fun, we said our goodbyes and headed home, where I did my yoga, played nyckleharpa for a bit, and then crawled into bed at 01:45. When I was young that was a fairly normal, or perhaps early, time for me to go to bed. However, when I was young I firmly believed that no self-respecting human was ever out of bed before noon. I kind of miss those days--I always had enough sleep, and never had dark circles under my eyes.
Today I started my morning situps at quarter after nine, which translates to 7.5 hours of sleep. Which is "enough" just, but my body did explain that it would register a protest about getting up so early--it wanted to sleep till noon and really catch up on sleep! (I have been averaging 6 to 7 hours each night lately.)
But that isn't an option today--today is the "Dans Fyrverkeri" my folk dance group has been preparing for. Today most, if not all, of the different dance groups in Luleå are gathering at "Kulturenshus"(The House of Culture) downtown to teach workshops in their dance forms, and in the evening to do performances. Therefore, as soon as I am done here I need to go pack second breakfast, first and second lunch, and dinner, gather my folk dance costume, and my sewing bag, and head out the door.
It will be a fun day, of course. But I do miss sleeping as much as my body wants. Why don't I do it during the week? Because I have found that in order to actually do eight hours of work in a day I need to start my work day around 07:00 so that I have time to finish early enough to get ready for our evening activities. I have too many interesting things going on each day to be able to work evenings, late nights, and weekends, like I did when I did my Master's and PhD research.
Sadly, I am now out of time for typing, so I can't record any of the other fun things that have been happening lately...
Last night we went to a dinner party in celebration of a friend completing his PhD. He is quite popular in the department here at uni, and well loved by the mining company his research was in collaboration with. That company tried to hire him, but he has decided to stay in academia, and is staring a post-doc position at our uni. I was NOT surprised to hear that my boss managed to find funding to keep him in the department; not only is my boss very good at obtaining funding, this particular researcher (not student, anymore!) is very talented and would be an asset to any department, so, of course, we want to keep him here.
But all that was just background to explain why the party was so fun--I really like most of the people in the department, and there were a few people at the party I hadn't met yet whose company I really enjoyed. The party started at 18:00, and after what seemed like a short, but intense evening having really interesting conversations with one small group or another I started noticing that I was getting tired. Eventually I looked at a clock and determined that the reason I was getting tired is that it was well after midnight, and I had been up since 06:00.
Therefore, even though we were having fun, we said our goodbyes and headed home, where I did my yoga, played nyckleharpa for a bit, and then crawled into bed at 01:45. When I was young that was a fairly normal, or perhaps early, time for me to go to bed. However, when I was young I firmly believed that no self-respecting human was ever out of bed before noon. I kind of miss those days--I always had enough sleep, and never had dark circles under my eyes.
Today I started my morning situps at quarter after nine, which translates to 7.5 hours of sleep. Which is "enough" just, but my body did explain that it would register a protest about getting up so early--it wanted to sleep till noon and really catch up on sleep! (I have been averaging 6 to 7 hours each night lately.)
But that isn't an option today--today is the "Dans Fyrverkeri" my folk dance group has been preparing for. Today most, if not all, of the different dance groups in Luleå are gathering at "Kulturenshus"(The House of Culture) downtown to teach workshops in their dance forms, and in the evening to do performances. Therefore, as soon as I am done here I need to go pack second breakfast, first and second lunch, and dinner, gather my folk dance costume, and my sewing bag, and head out the door.
It will be a fun day, of course. But I do miss sleeping as much as my body wants. Why don't I do it during the week? Because I have found that in order to actually do eight hours of work in a day I need to start my work day around 07:00 so that I have time to finish early enough to get ready for our evening activities. I have too many interesting things going on each day to be able to work evenings, late nights, and weekends, like I did when I did my Master's and PhD research.
Sadly, I am now out of time for typing, so I can't record any of the other fun things that have been happening lately...
