You can go, but you have to earn it.
August 11th, 2008I spent most of the weekend getting ready for my trip to Washington DC. Trying to get the house kicked into shape, getting the laundry together so that I can pack, setting up the new computer and all kinds of assorted housework.
I think, in the past couple of nights, I’ve totaled some 10-12 hours of sleep.
I overslept this morning and wound up RUNNING to the bus stop, shouting "Wait! Wait for me!" and barely making the bus. I found out that my regular driver in on vacation, so we have the crappy driver who is rude, almost always running late and insists on certain rules that don’t actually exist outside of his head. Of course, he couldn’t be on shift during the week I’m gone, it has to be the week where I have so much other stuff to do that this just makes it all that much more annoying.
I’m coming to realize that no matter what I’ve got planned, if I’m going out of town, there’s always a trial that I have to go through before I leave. At least I do get to leave… and it makes being away from my regular routine that much more pleasant.
But I still have a ton of things I *have* to do, a bunch of things I’d like to do before I go and very little time to do it all… I also still need to find a way to fit sleep into the equation. I’m not really sure how any of that is going to happen, but I’ll do the best I can…