Piled Higher and Deeper

Today was a rough day. I woke up 5AM to make it in time for a 7 AM meeting. Then I meet my students to discuss their thesis for about two hours. Then a short break for lunch, and a meeting with a professor that took way longer than it needed.

By that time my head was not working right anymore. I spent some time going through my inbox and solving stuff that I could solve immediately, and then I made a list of all pending tasks that I could remember. January is making an effort to deserve its title of "Month of the running teacher".

Before my end-of-year break, I managed to clear a lot of my pending work, and my pending task list was about 4-5 items longs (although those were beefy tasks). Somehow in the two work weeks since the new year, my tasks have been multiplying like wet gremlins.

Yet, I still think I kinda got things under control, in a grim way. Most of this list will be deferred to oblivion, and my task is to keep making sure that the relevant stuff gets prioritized. I've even managed to keep some of my start of the year resolutions, like to keep up with blogging and making weekend plans.

But it does explain why in these two weeks my mind has just shut down when I arrive at home after work. I just sit down and before I realize it, it is time to shower and sleep. It is quite annoying.

I can somewhat make myself do something by making a todo list of things to do at home... but my inner critic rebels at the thought of bringing my work-hours flow (todos, schedules) to my home time. Need to find a better way to get around to my at home goals.