Down time
I don't know anyone who needs as much down time as I do. It's sort of embarrassingly, really. I often feel like I'm ridiculously busy, but when I think about it, it's not that I have that much going on. Plenty of people have way more going on than I do, and they manage to survive. No, I feel like I'm too busy because I'm not getting enough down time to make up for everything. I'm like a bad cell phone battery.
This is just one of the many things that freaks me out about the possibility of eventually having a kid. No down time. Would I be able to function at all? Would I go absolutely crazy? And I don't mean the kind of crazy every parent is sometimes, but really debilitatingly, impossible-to-live-with crazy?
These days I've been walking the line between energizingly busy and crazy-making busy. It's hard to remember to do the things that keep me sane. Must try harder.
Comments
You need to start spinning again. That is down time and you don't have to feel guilty, because you're accomplishing great things!
Posted by: Leslie | 4:30PM, 07.14.07
That's actually one of the main reasons I started doing things like knitting and spinning - it was a great way to procrastinate in college, yet not feel too guilty about it because I was actually doing something productive!
Posted by: andrea | 10:06PM, 07.14.07
Unwinding is not working on something else.
Spinning is uptime, I think. Time spent when you're up.
Attempt to do *nothing*, if you need it.
Posted by: Wil | 7:08AM, 07.16.07
Heh, that's kind of funny. Spinning is definitely not not unwinding, actually it's winding!
My version of doing *nothing* lately has been reading a lot of silly fantasy books, constantly, all the time.
Posted by: andrea | 12:04PM, 07.16.07
When you have children "down time" means "more than two consecutive hours of sleep".
But it gets better. After about a year, we entrusted ours to a babysitter and permitted ourselves to go out.
But I still never feel like I have enough time to myself.
Posted by: simon | 3:17AM, 07.23.07