Thursday, October 4, 2012

Prioritize...reprioritized

Whats it like to do an executive education with a full time job?
- It is completely crazy. I now know and understand exactly what people mean when they say, studying with a full time job is not easy.
Here's how I'm coping with it so far:
  1. I have not spent enough time caring for my lovely plants in the balcony. 
  2. The people who used to think I'm being 'frivolous' with my life (because I was traveling around all the time, I was not pregnant) turn around and start telling me, 'hey, go get some fun in life. stop being so serious. give yourself a break.'
  3. I have a bored spouse who is really bored of me being buried in my course materials, doing my assignments, preparing for my exams...and also laying traces of my course materials all over the house :P 
  4. I have not cleaned the windows this whole year
  5. My college assignment deadlines and my bad planning capabilities screwed up a vacation opportunity to celebrate my birthday
  6. Apart from one real vacation to Northern France, V and I have not gone on any long vacations this year. I haven't spent time scanning Google Maps to plan vacations. 
  7. The washed laundry lie there for days before I pick up something to wear from the pile.
  8. I have not been proactive for a few things at work, given my schedule
I have one final thesis to get started on and submit by mid Jan 2013. Meanwhile, we would also like to travel to India. I will try my best to manage all of this better. But its really not something I do well. My mood, the weather, people...there are too many things that can affect me and put all the planning off on a tizzy.

Lets see how it goes! :)