Switching to Sunday-ish!

*pant pant*

Okay, this week I almost wrote a Wednesday post.  I actually did write it — Wednesday night — and then it mysteriously got eaten alive, whole and chomping.  Gone.  And here it is Saturday, and I haven't been able to replace it.

See, here's the thing.  New job (YAY) is a mostly-from-home gig, which I'm quickly learning is harder than an at-the-office gig in a lot of ways (many of the same ways that doing college course-work online was surprisingly harder than going to school, actually).  It's only been a few months, and I have a weeeeird commuter schedule with a lot of new stuff to get used to, plus numerous big family-changes and stuff, so thank you all for being awesome and cutting me slack; I've needed it.

I think I'm going to switch to doing my weekly updates (as you know, there are Twitters and periodic small updates whenever, but the weekly ones are — or are supposed to be — the substantive ones) on the weekend, if that's okay.  I just spend too much time in front of the computer on a weekday as it is, and I just don't think I can work in any more.  Look at Ye Olde Schedule now:

• bet. 4-5a:  wake up, exercise, write fiction
• 6a, 2-3x a week:  kungfu class
• bet. 7-8a:  nap
• 8:30a:  start work
• about 1p:  nap
• theoretically 5p, but more often 7p:  done with work
• 5:30 or 7p, 2-3x a week:  more kungfu/taiji/stuff
• after work/class until 9p:  parent
• somewhere in the 7-8p range, if I can:  nap
• 11:30p:  bedtime if I didn't get an evening nap; I buy another 1-1.5 hours if I did.  I spend that time reading or watching TV and making chainmail, or exercising if I don't feel like I've had enough that day.

…So I'm on this rotating E3-E4.5 schedule where "it depends" on if I get all of my naps, or if work or the kiddo steals one, how much sleep I get at night.  Sometimes I even only get one nap, and then I sleep 6 hours.  Sometimes I overwork myself ridiculously at kungfu or working out (remember how I wasn't much of a straight-up-working-out freak?  That changed, heh) and need extra sleep to heal something.  (By the way, ice, some Ibuprofen and extra water before bed, and whatever herbal or topical healing-stuff you like, plus 3 hours extra sleep is the BEST cure for pulled muscles and stuff.  I've no idea if it works when you're monophasic, so don't ask.  ;) 

And one week every month, now, I travel, and spend that whole week working a LOT and sleeping in temporary places.  I've still only done it twice, so I haven't figured out how I can nap when I'm out of town, but I absolutely do plan to figure it out, if I can.  In fact, now that I'm mostly working from home, I absolutely plan to see if I can set up an Uberman-friendly schedule.  OH HELL YES.  If it's possible, I'm so on it.  But I'm still way in the early phases of figuring that out, unfortunately, so there's not much to write about yet.

And while I'm home, I'm spending 1-2 hours typing in the morning, and then 8+ hours during the day doing this rather astonishing combination of texting, talking on the phone, emailing, technie stuff, and chatting (IM is a big way my department communicates, so it's pretty much constant).  After that, I simply cannot look at any of the three computers I use every day (uh-huh) after 9pm; I can't.  So I've basically given up all video-games (except for my Wii, which I adore on the odd chance I get time to play it) and dropped largely off the face of the regularly-updating Internet Planet for a while. 

Like, 40 of you good readers got email replies from me this morning, some of which you'd been waiting on over a month.  Seriously. Oh, and I've pretty much been kicked out of my SF-critiquing group, for nonactivity.  D'oh!

Anyway, this is your formal assurance that there are Plans.  To start with, regular updates will be returning, albeit on weekends.  Progress on the 2nd Edition of Ubersleep, which I left at about 2/3 done, will resume.  Somehow.  And I'll keep everyone posted on the details of my situation that are relevant to casing out a possible future Uberman opportunity, which, if I did it, I would do it right, including videos and daily notes and the whole shebang.  I'm busy as shit, but I remain hopeful — which, really, ought to be my motto.  I need a T-Shirt…

PD