Tick Tock, Tick Tock

It never fails - the more time I have, the less I get done. I have class work to do, home projects (sewing and refinishing a table top), books to read, moving out of my old classroom and into the new one, Netflix movies to watch, and baseball and the Olympics are on. But lately all I can manage to do is watch soaps, surf the net, and, well, nap. Why do I need the "last minute" to get anything done? I'm a fairly intelligent, responsible person. I hold down a job, I pay my bills on time, do laundry and clean (when someone is coming to visit).



Hell, I haven't even posted to this blog in a month or so. I know you're probably thinking, oh poor you, you have a few weeks off in the summer. Get over yourself. I do realize how lucky I am to be a teacher in August. But this unstructured time is not good for my personality type. If I'm going to teach summer school in July, then August should be just for doing nothing, right? Right. But I have these tasks looming over me like the long shadows that come with the Fall and the shorter days. Am I one of those people that needs to go to work, punch in, do the work, punch out, and not bring it home with me? Sometimes I think so. It just feels so unproductive.

That being said, I am enjoying a cold beer at midnight on a weeknight, and don't really have to get up at any particular time tomorrow (except to tackle some or all of those things I mentioned earlier, especially the class work). So I'll quit whining and surf the net for the flat screen tv I want to, but shouldn't, buy this weekend on a tax-free weekend. Maybe then I'll watch a couple of those movies that have been sitting on my DVD player for weeks collecting dust. Tick tock.