work-a-day blues

On Friday, 5/1/09, I officially resumed working full-time. But since that was a Friday, the prospect didn’t seem nearly as foreboding as it does on this Monday morning. With the full week laying ahead of me, knowing that I must spend 40 long hours in that loathsome, stress-filled office over the next 5 days fills me with dread. No more free afternoons to run errands or procrastinate doing my school work. No more afternoon naps.

On the positive side, I can take comfort in the fact that – after tonight, anyway, when I submit my final final iteration of my research paper – I’ll be through with school obligations until August. So at least I won’t be doing the juggling act anymore. On the negative side, the lack of afternoon naps means that the Post-Lunch Sleepies are going to kick my ass.

I’ll now be working the vile 8am-5pm shift with all the other office drones in the world. The sun will be low in the eastern sky when I go in, and low in the western sky when I come home. My days will, once again, be wholly not my own. At least now – as opposed to back in 2005 and early 2006 when I struggled with the feelings of inertia that came from this job and this schedule – I can take comfort in the fact that the end of my time there is in sight, and I really and truly have something bigger and better that I’ll be moving on to soon enough.

~ by tangle on May 4, 2009.