Where Has The Time Gone?

Ben — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:09:47 +0000

Sometimes it feels like there is too few hours in a day. Or in a week. Or even in a month. Being busy is something that most people either have no trouble with because they like it. But other people can’t seem to find anything to do, or simply dislike the prospect of having to do anything. For the first group, they enjoy the hustle and bustle of life, and flourish with the routine and pace of the game. Yet for the second group, maybe they want to be able to do something but are either unable to because of lack of work, or possibly because of inability to keep busy because of an ailment or other hinderance.

I seem to fall somewhere in the grey area between the two groups. I sometimes enjoy being busy, but also rather like a laid-back atmosphere. For the past month or so, longer if you count the entire time that I have been taking classes and the weather has been decent enough out so that chores have to be done, I have been busy almost non-stop. It is the main reason that there have not been new posts here on the blog. I simply have been too busy to do anything other than what has to be done.

Housework, outside work, daughter, class, work, outside work-work, holidays, and family get togethers; all of these things have been keeping me so busy that it has been hard to think, let alone get anything done. And yes, I have been “getting things done” mowing the lawn and keeping things looking decent around the house, but those aren’t things that I really want to do. If I had it my way I would have been finished with the site redesign and would have been working on a few other work related yet personal projects. The only reason I have been able to write this post, is that I am waiting for a file to finish downloading so that I can finish the homework for this week. I only have homework because I am in the position that I need to have a degree so that I can be hired in full time. I really hope to be hired in full time so that I can better support my wife and daughter. This post really doesn’t have a whole lot of meaning other than to give me a place to kind of give my brain a release of all of the things that have been taking up its “processing” time as of late. I really hope that by writing this I will be able to “purge” all of this backed up cache and be able to move into the coming week with a clear head and be able to compete tasks more easily. Not that the week starts out easy though, for the first four days I will be swamped with filming events that require me to head off campus and mingle with the masses. It is a slight highlight however, that the first thing I get to do is more engaging work ( close shot interviews in HD ) than most of the rest of the week (general crowd and roaming speaker shots that get encoded into a low quality webstream). All the while I do not wish to sound unpleased with what I am doing. This job has given me many opportunities that I might not have otherwise had, and I am eternally grateful for that.

I will leave with this. While I have been running without break for quite some time, and am eagerly awaiting a pause in the hectic to and fro, I will also miss it a little. That is why I am in the grey zone. I am not a very happy person when under high amounts of stress, but I also become restless if I have too much time and nothing to do.

Tiny People!

Ben — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:08:59 +0000

My how the days have flown past! It’s only been a short while since I last posted and yet in that short time I have become a father! My daughter was born on Saturday September 26th at 12:40 pm. Her name is Audra Sue and she is my pride and joy. Both Savannah and I have been very busy with her since she was brought into the world, and it hasn’t been the easiest, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. For the next I don’t know how long I will be kept on my toes and out of sleep so there will probably be another lag in my posts after this one.

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Where Has The Time Gone?

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