New Year

It's the start of another new year and I'm pondering how productive I need to be today. It's already 2:30 pm, so today is mostly gone but there's still a little time to accomplish stuff. Next to me sits a list of things I need to get done within the next couple of days. I also added "Thesis" to the list for good measure. My projected graduation is this May, but due to being highly overwhelmed last semester, my thesis was put on hold which hopefully doesn't push back my graduation date.

I don't do New Year's resolutions. As a matter of fact, I don't even do New Year's. I go to bed around 8:30 or 9 pm, wake up to the sound of fireworks and gunshots around 11:58 pm, and when they finally die down around 12:30 am, I fall back to sleep. This year is no exception.

Tomorrow starts my official marathon training for a May marathon, with a March half marathon thrown in for inspiration as well as gauging my training. But training is nothing new for me, I've been doing it for years. I did decide to do a massive purge of my belongings that are no longer useful, which has been a two-day process. Now a huge pile sits in my tiny living room waiting to go to Goodwill tomorrow.

I filled out my paperwork for teaching this semester and will turn it in tomorrow or Tuesday, depending on when campus is open. I have laundry to do, but I have to take it to the laundromat since I have a comforter to wash. I don't know if anything is even open today.

So that leaves me with work for my remote job in San Diego, and my thesis. And cleaning the house. It's hard to clean the house with a large pile of stuff that needs to be removed...so that leaves me with San Diego work and my thesis. Neither of which I feel like tackling right now.

So I read a few chapters in my new book.

And now I feel guilty. I had plenty of sleep last night, so I have no excuse not to be productive. I can't even take a nap; I'm well rested. I'm going to have to establish a strong routine in order to make it through this month and the coming semester. It's hard for me to accomplish anything when I don't need to be anywhere at a certain time.

For now I think I'll snack.