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03/27/2007
8 to 5 job with 3 hour commute: incompatible with life
Hi everyone, and sorry I haven't been posting lately! Just to confirm or disclaim any rumours or suspicions, yes, I am in fact still alive. (Bodily anyway...) For those who haven't heard, I got a job starting January 29th. It's a decent job, but the problem is, it's on the complete opposite side of the city, and it takes 1.5 hours in each direction just to get there and back. Plus, the official hours are 8 to 5, not 8 to 4 or 9 to 5 like most other jobs I know. So this job takes a HUGE chunk out of my life. Actually, I feel like I'm on an work-eat-sleep cycle. Any time I have an evening activity (orchestra, dance), which seems to be often, it eats into my sleep time. I'm just thanking my lucky stars that I live at home, so my parents do the cooking. I can't imagine how I'd do this if I had to do my own cooking. I'd probably be eating breakfast cereal for dinner every night!
Anyway, to try to reclaim some of my life back, I've bit the bullet and bought an Alphasmart Dana. Or, I should say, I've paid for it; I can't wait til it arrives in the mail. Alphasmarts are basically portable word processors - they have a full size keyboard, a small screen, and batteries that last way longer than laptop batteries. They don't do much that a laptop would (no games, flashy colours, etc), but all I want to do is catch up on my writing, so hopefully this will allow me to at least get something done in those 3 hours a day that I'm on the bus. Hopefully that also means writing up more blog entries!
I'll post again with more news about the Alphasmart and my bid to reclaim my life.
Did I mention I currently plan to apply for the paramedic program in 2008?! Well, that's a whole other topic I can talk about later too.
For now, I'm off to bed!
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