perennial time management post...
Jan. 1st, 2004 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikSo I'm contemplating my schedule, both for this coming quarter, and the next few years.
The good: I'm doing a lot of things I really like. Things have generally been moving in the right directions.
The ugly (there isn't much "bad" exactly): I sense a creeping trend towards massive overcommitment.
Things I'm doing, or want to do:
Continue my martial arts education This probably doesn't require much explanation for anyone who reads my journal. The problem is only that I don't really want to drop any classes, and there are two weekly classes I'd like to pick up, plus a monthly seminar. This probably isn't realistic, but quite desirable. (Working plan is that I'll pick up one weekly class this month, and figure the other two out as things progress. This would be pretty similar to this quarter's schedule, the way things are being re-arranged.)
Someday I'm going to cut way back on wushu to focus on internal arts, I suspect. (Well, okay, maybe.) But not just yet, I hope... The new schedule kind of bites, though.
Teach Taiji more Darn. I am so very much enjoying this, and at least for the time being, it's very much something I want to expand. However, as per my current schedule I have two evening slots that could possibly get added... Not something I'm moving towards quite yet, might become more likely beginning of next quarter. Could look at teaching through senior centers or after school programs, both of which would not tie up those precious evening or weekend hours.
Work on my Writing Especially food writing, especially getting published more broadly. Except that while this is definately a long term goal, it's getting really shorted right now... and might yet for a while. OTOH, I'm well set up to write in a wide variety of locations, so it's more time flexible than most things I'm doing, if I can find any time at all.
Possibly go back to school No, really. There are two parts of this -- I'd like to go back and retake some upper level Chinese classes, and probably some classical. This advances a lot of my long term "going to study in China" goals.
And I'm thinking once again about something along the lines of Physical Therapy. I talked to the UW PT department a while ago, and was pretty turned off, actually... but I have a much clearer idea what I want, now, and think I should probably go in, explain where I'm coming from and what my background is, and see if they have anything that more or less suits and doesn't strike me as a huge waste of my time. (I have a really bad attitude about this, since as far as I can tell, most fresh out of school PTs are pretty incompetent, and only learn the stuff I'm really interested in through special training after they're already working in the field. Hopefully this is just blind ignorance and arrogance on my part.) Especially since I don't really want to be a PT per se. At least in the traditional sense.
I might even talk to folks at Bastyr. I will at least talk to my friend who's a professor emeritus at Bastyr... many of my experiences with Bastyr frankly gave me hives, but one of their programs might actually suit me okay, if it's sufficiently rigorous and focused the ways I want it too be. (Unlikely, but oh well.) And K is likely to know if there are other cool programs in the area I should be looking at.
Though damn it, there would be a lot of advantages, long term, to the PT thing.
(Remembers why last time I looked at this seriously I got so frustrated. Maybe I should just go study genetics instead. Or applied math.)
Anyhow, some interesting ideas there... but how would it fit in with the others? I have this feeling of impending gridlock...
Have a Life I want to still be able to cook once or twice a week. I can cut back, but there are some quality of life issues here. I want to make bread. I'd like to continue having some kind of a garden. I want to keep hiking.
Hey, it would be kind of nice to see some of you all from time to time, too.
I think I need to keep in mind that there's no way I can do all of this all at once, and that that's okay. Taken as a whole, it's overwhelming. Heck, many pairs of two parts taken together are kind of overwhelming.
The good: I'm doing a lot of things I really like. Things have generally been moving in the right directions.
The ugly (there isn't much "bad" exactly): I sense a creeping trend towards massive overcommitment.
Things I'm doing, or want to do:
Continue my martial arts education This probably doesn't require much explanation for anyone who reads my journal. The problem is only that I don't really want to drop any classes, and there are two weekly classes I'd like to pick up, plus a monthly seminar. This probably isn't realistic, but quite desirable. (Working plan is that I'll pick up one weekly class this month, and figure the other two out as things progress. This would be pretty similar to this quarter's schedule, the way things are being re-arranged.)
Someday I'm going to cut way back on wushu to focus on internal arts, I suspect. (Well, okay, maybe.) But not just yet, I hope... The new schedule kind of bites, though.
Teach Taiji more Darn. I am so very much enjoying this, and at least for the time being, it's very much something I want to expand. However, as per my current schedule I have two evening slots that could possibly get added... Not something I'm moving towards quite yet, might become more likely beginning of next quarter. Could look at teaching through senior centers or after school programs, both of which would not tie up those precious evening or weekend hours.
Work on my Writing Especially food writing, especially getting published more broadly. Except that while this is definately a long term goal, it's getting really shorted right now... and might yet for a while. OTOH, I'm well set up to write in a wide variety of locations, so it's more time flexible than most things I'm doing, if I can find any time at all.
Possibly go back to school No, really. There are two parts of this -- I'd like to go back and retake some upper level Chinese classes, and probably some classical. This advances a lot of my long term "going to study in China" goals.
And I'm thinking once again about something along the lines of Physical Therapy. I talked to the UW PT department a while ago, and was pretty turned off, actually... but I have a much clearer idea what I want, now, and think I should probably go in, explain where I'm coming from and what my background is, and see if they have anything that more or less suits and doesn't strike me as a huge waste of my time. (I have a really bad attitude about this, since as far as I can tell, most fresh out of school PTs are pretty incompetent, and only learn the stuff I'm really interested in through special training after they're already working in the field. Hopefully this is just blind ignorance and arrogance on my part.) Especially since I don't really want to be a PT per se. At least in the traditional sense.
I might even talk to folks at Bastyr. I will at least talk to my friend who's a professor emeritus at Bastyr... many of my experiences with Bastyr frankly gave me hives, but one of their programs might actually suit me okay, if it's sufficiently rigorous and focused the ways I want it too be. (Unlikely, but oh well.) And K is likely to know if there are other cool programs in the area I should be looking at.
Though damn it, there would be a lot of advantages, long term, to the PT thing.
(Remembers why last time I looked at this seriously I got so frustrated. Maybe I should just go study genetics instead. Or applied math.)
Anyhow, some interesting ideas there... but how would it fit in with the others? I have this feeling of impending gridlock...
Have a Life I want to still be able to cook once or twice a week. I can cut back, but there are some quality of life issues here. I want to make bread. I'd like to continue having some kind of a garden. I want to keep hiking.
Hey, it would be kind of nice to see some of you all from time to time, too.
I think I need to keep in mind that there's no way I can do all of this all at once, and that that's okay. Taken as a whole, it's overwhelming. Heck, many pairs of two parts taken together are kind of overwhelming.
