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Posted 2024-09-09
With the start of the academic year, I have found my free time vanishing lightning fast. This isn't unusual, but it feels like a shock each year. Right now I'm trying to balance research, personal, projects, professional milestones, and union obligations. It's...more than would be advisable.
I feel quite happy and excited about everything going on in my life. It feels like I'm at or reaching one of those points where things suddenly feel possible in a way they usually don't. Despite how stressful this period is, I welcome it and look forward to what comes next.
As far as my gemlog goes, I may be updating a bit less frequently with so much research-related writing waiting for me. While I have some education-relates ideas in my drafts, possibly to put here and on the Professional™ Website®, it may be a good while before I finally get around to publishing them.
As for my other hobbies, they are definitely suffering and I regret that. There is much excitement in my life right now, but I wish societally that there was a greater emphasis on values other than productivity. I've become fairly comfortable at carving off time for myself, but it still feels wasteful to do activities where the objective is to just have fun. I have some thoughts about what are "good" and "bad" hobbies in my weird little head right now and how those ideas connect to the push to "optimize" one's time and interests that I've felt since I was a kid. I should probably add that to the queue, since the older I get the more horrible it feels that we tell kids to pick their hobbies and classes so they will be academically competitive. And horrible for so, so many reasons.
More to hopefully come soon, even if it may be quick pre-coffee thoughts like this.