Happy Exhaustion :-)

It is ten at night, and I've just gotten home in the last few minutes. I am eating dinner, trying to anyway, before I fall over asleep.

One of the things I did not know about working for the feds is that when you are a temporary employee, there for a specific task, there is a certain number of hours approved for you to work. And, in this case anyway, the number of hours are more or less set in stone. Of the eight of us working in my group, no less than three of us have taken time off to take care of an illness, an accident or an emergency at home. We are suppposed to make up that time. So, this week, I have been making up time the I missed last week. It has not been easy. Saturday, as you probably know, was the "time change" and we lost an hour. What a crock of crap!!! I never lose JUST an hour when we "spring forward". There are HOURS of sleep lost this time of year.

I have a bit of insomnia anyway, and generally wake around 2 a.m. I am (all too often) awake for an hour (or more on really bad nights). With the time change, 2 is 3. With the time change, I could not go to sleep Sunday evening. And with the 'emergency at home' last week, I needed to rise early Monday and begin the task of making up time. So, when I woke at "2:30" the clock read "3:30" and I was supposed to get up at 4:30. Yeah. I woke up at 3:30 Monday morning.

Monday night, neither my son or I could get to sleep. So, Monday night was short sleep. Last night, blessedly I slept.

Tonight, I went straight from working for the feds, to my part-time teaching position. The positions are in different states. The same metropolitan area, but different states. There is 1/2 an hour between leaving one place and needing to be at the other place. No time for dinner.

Sigh

So, I eat now, sure to regret it about 2 a.m. (or is that 3 a.m.???) Tomorrow, I teach again. We'll see how this goes. So far, so good. I want to enjoy teaching. I have wanted to teach for so long! One night will not tell me all I need to know though, so I will remain cautious.

Do not be winnowed in these tough times!!! (Iwill try to explain that next post.)