have more free time

too much to do too little time.

With college and all I never had any free time. I’m majoring in Forensic Science. Sometimes I even study on weekends, but not all day. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

yesterday’s frog was a phone call to a friend with whom i’ve been practicing tai chi. i decided that i have other things i’d rather do with the time i was spending traveling to her house. i had told myself it was an opportunity to do some walking and get some reading done on the train, but as i thought about going and all the things that would be left undone at home, i decided to call off our weekly appointment.

i hated to disappoint her, but i still feel rushed, even on my offline days. before i know it, it’s bedtime, and even simple things like filing away books and papers and groceries haven’t been done. my “days off” should be full of more possibilities, and i’d like to wake from them the next day with all the chores done around the house and a cleaner and lighter load starting the workday. i need to keep chopping and chopping down my commitments until i really feel free to choose what i do next, with no guilt for anything left undone.

the phrase “like a kid in summer” keeps running through my mind. sometimes, i have too many projects and too much structure to my days. i need to have days when i wake and look around for what i want to do. i usually already know what’s going to happen the night before, and all the spontaneity’s gone.

i’d like sometimes to recapture that feeling of august as boy, when i’d go find my best friend, and we’d sit around and make a plan.

one part of what i need is more ruthlessness with my todos. if i could throw out 80% of my plans and cut my lists down to something i could really handle in a reasonable time, there would be room for whatever comes next.

During the summer semester, I’m only taking two classes, probably.. so that will lighten the load a bit.. however the summer semester is 16 weeks worth of classes crammed into 10 weeks, so it won’t be that much lighter.

Hopefully this will free up a little time to go hiking once or twice.. spend more time with my son, my girlfriend, and work on a second album.

and actually get some homework done.

already, i’m making plans on spending my free time before i get it! ha.

It’s amazing.. looking over the 34 things I currently have.. how many are in some way connected to this one goal : have more free time.

I don’t anticipate actually having much free time until this semester is over, and definitely not really until I’m done with school. And then, then.. I’ll take a nap!

what was i thinking? i have more free time than most people.

now I have more free time than ever.. I could mark this as complete.. it all depends on your life.. I’m trying to find ways to get rich though so I’ll hold off on this in the hopes I’m making too much money being super busy one day.

-write a big email/letter/something to everyone I’ve not been able to stay in touch with since I’ve been too damn busy

-tag my photos on Flickr, and send them to groups

-tag my MP3’s

-Vacuum the rugs (HA!)

and most importantly

-GO ON VACATION