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I'm getting started late today, but I got some good sleep last night and I needed it! I've worked two very full weeks this month, and that's a very good thing. I've also been sick with bronchitis this week, and I really needed rest.
I should backtrack here and give some more info. I have not worked full-time since I worked during the summer as a teenager. I haven't done much of anything full-time since 1997, when I was taking a full load of psychology classes. I don't need to explain why since I'll be putting up a lot of back entries this weekend. The point of mentioning this is that because of the difficulties I've been having since 1997 I had started to wonder if I could even handle working full-time.
I still wondered when I moved here, presumably so that I could pick up a few extra contract hours on site where I could work with the new products that are being developed. The work has picked up more than I thought it would, and although I'm still a contractor rather than an employee, I'm making somedecent money and I can no longer call myself unemployed. And I am adjusting to the schedule better than I expected. I've been sick a lot and missed some days, but not as many as I feared I would miss.
Moving has been a good experience overall. I don't have tons of space--for the past 18 months I lived alone in a 1,500-square-foot apartment, and I now share a house with two other girls with my bedroom being the smallest. The only thing that really concerns me about it is the amount of stuff I need to put in here. I'm sure that once I get motivated to start unpacking I will find a place for everything. It's just tight.
I finished a big work project yesterday, and I'm rewarding myself with some down time this weekend. I need it. So today I'm just lounging in bed with Meghan. Christy is hanging out in here with me, and Walt may come over later. I hope so--I haven't seen him much lately and I seem to thrive on seeing the people I'm close to, at least on some kind of regular basis. I've learned that I like spending some time alone and I need it, but it has to be balanced out withtime with people. I think that has been one of my big problems for a long while: too much alone time dictated by circumstances.
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