Recovery Blogger on December 30th, 2008

There are a few things that I know with absolute certainty:

Distraction isn’t good for me
Not only was I feeling really off the other day but I keep finding my partner asking what’s up (and tending to ask what I had for lunch)
My sleep habits are askew and I need to reign them in
I’m excited about [...]

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Recovery Blogger on December 17th, 2008

So far today I have done next to nothing. Seriously, I did the social bookmarking part of one of my jobs and that pretty much is all (other than wasting time with someone who was trying to get me to change the basic terms of a project that I thought I’d been pretty clear on) [...]

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Recovery Blogger on November 19th, 2008

Not really found, so much as created. It just gets tough sometimes to take a break, to allow myself a break rather.
Last week I requested that my workload be shifted a bit - the closest that I’ve come to saying that I am overwhelmed ever - after I realized that I was getting tired of [...]

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Recovery Blogger on November 12th, 2008

One of those sneaky little things in my life - and, sure, there are more of them than I’d care to let on really - is that I still crave control. I don’t want to do anything too desperate about it, I’m just not willing to settle for a false illusion of control (which is [...]

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Recovery Blogger on November 11th, 2008

I’ve done a lot of thinking the last couple of days - actually, let me rephrase that. I’ve had a number of thoughts that have almost been living me the last couple of days. Despite having what seems like a million and fifty things to do, I’ve just been caught up thinking about the fact [...]

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Recovery Blogger on April 9th, 2008

One of the things that always seems to set me up is the sense of displacement. Right now, while I’m trying to get through any 10 different projects at one point in time and making a “valiant effort” to take the lead on figuring out relocating (which means working on my resume, her resume and [...]

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Recovery Blogger on March 8th, 2008

Some days make sense: you get up in the morning, you know what you’re going to be doing. You might not like it, but it’s just a part of it.
Other days don’t make sense. No matter how much you know on a rational level that one day bleeds into the next and that time moves [...]

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