Yesterday, morning I was 100% \u2013 stone cold \u2013 freaked out about work. I had too many things to do and not nearly enough time to do them. Besides that, I\u2019m supposed to be providing some kinda guidance to other members of my team. If I can\u2019t get *my* work done \u2013 how am I supposed to guide them? So, I put my head down and plowed through a large amount of tasks. I was nowhere near \u201cdone,\u201d (frankly, I no longer believe in that mythical place called \u201cdone\u201d) when I closed my laptop around 5:30 and took the cat to the vet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After coming home, Jen and I picked up the cooler containing the fresh caught 5lb cod from our CSF, the kale and arugula from the CSA, and hopped in the car to go over to capital_l<\/a> and technolope<\/a>s place. We cooked dinner, drank some wine, and laughed and talked until about 11. Not once did any of us check our email \u2013 despite all being in the same boat, work-wise. We got home and fell into bed around midnight \u2013 and today I resumed my mad scramble. I\u2019m writing this from terminal \u2018A\u2019 of Boston Logan \u2013 leaving on the second business trip of the week. Seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This sort of balance is essential. I gave up at the end of work yesterday, and simply abandoned myself to time with friends. I could have stayed home and worked \u2013 and a few years ago I would have said that I \u201cshould have.\u201d This begs the question of \u201cwhose should,\u201d and it turns out not to be mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We \u201cshould\u201d do this for each other, because we are<\/strong> friends \u2026 and because this is the only life we get. Because there\u2019s no such thing as \u201cdone,\u201d and because at this point in our careers, work will take all the time its given. It is every individual human being\u2019s job to figure out how to live a better, happier life \u2026 and to help the people around them if they can spare the cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a marathon, not a sprint. I may never be caught up \u2013 but I don\u2019t plan on skipping Fish Fry Tuesdays for anything less than being out of town \u2026 and even then I\u2019ll Skype in if I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, morning I was 100% \u2013 stone cold \u2013 freaked out about work. I had too many things to do and not nearly enough time to do them. Besides that, I\u2019m supposed to be providing some kinda guidance to other members of my team. If…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}