{"id":1583,"date":"2010-09-14T00:48:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T06:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2010-09-13T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T15:56:06","slug":"vague-talk-about-specific-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1583","title":{"rendered":"Vague Talk About Specific Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about Time Management.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly in the context of adding way, way more to do to my schedule, and if I can pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I think I&#8217;m pretty good with time management. I can normally fairly safely estimate the amount of time a task will take me to complete, and slot it in in a time where I know I will get it done. I understand how I work, and when I will be reluctant to work, and I can fit things in.<\/p>\n<p>However, the one thing I can&#8217;t stand organizing and scheduling is my free time.<\/p>\n<p>I hate having to parcel off my free time. I hate going &#8220;Here is the hour in which I will do a vidjeo gam.&#8221; I really dislike that. It turns the very act of relaxing into work, and it frustrates me. I know it sometimes frustrates Brer when I hate him constantly asking me when we can schedule viewings of shows we&#8217;re trying to watch together. It just makes watching it seem like more work.<\/p>\n<p>All this potential stuff that I could add to my plate&#8230; all of it would start to require such strict scheduling of my time, in order to get my schoolwork done, that I feel like all my free time, not just some of it, would start to fall under scheduling concerns. Frankly, it scares me, because it makes me feel like I&#8217;ll never have time to unwind. I&#8217;m a creature of habit, but when I sit down to relax, I don&#8217;t want to feel forced into doing one thing or another. I want to be able to let my whims roam free for the first time that day. That&#8217;s what relaxes me. Just letting me do what I want, without worrying about deadlines or scheduling. At least for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>I work best when I can set a cutoff time, where all the rest of my time that day is mine. That&#8217;s when I work best. I&#8217;ll have so much less opportunity to do that if I take this up. But it&#8217;s also a good opportunity. Arg.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this is growing up. If you want to have cake AND eat cake, you have to get everything in gear to make it happen. I know I can make it happen. The question is more&#8230; will I be happy making it happen? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m wondering. I don&#8217;t know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll try, and we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about Time Management. Mostly in the context of adding way, way more to do to my schedule, and if I can pull it off. Honestly, I think I&#8217;m pretty good with time management. I can normally fairly safely estimate the amount of time a task will take me to complete, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}