Feeling Antsy
Other than the running sports diary double post this past Sunday, I haven’t actually blogged in a week. We are changing that right now! I’m definitely running on fumes, and the MLK 3-day weekend can’t get here soon enough. The past two days have felt like one super-sized day.
During the podcast season, my routine is always to wake up early on Wednesday and do whatever is necessary to immerse myself in whichever movie we’re covering on a given week. By the way, yesterday we recorded our podcast episode on one of my guilty pleasure movies, A Walk to Remember. The movie is sooooo good! No spoilers for the movie or the actual podcast episode. Check it out starting this coming MLK Day, January 17th. Back to my podcast day routine, there have been many weeks where I’ll rewatch the movie one last time and will take notes based on the current episode’s outline. The routine usually starts around 4:00 am and continues until I either have to clock in for work (if I’m working from home) or have to get ready to go to work (on days I come into the office). The main reason I wake up ridiculously early is because I like that there are absolutely NO DISTRACTIONS at 4:00 am. I LOVE IT!!! Also, because I’ve gotten some sleep, I’m usually “refreshed enough”. The one huge downside to operating like this is that by the end of the day, I’m completely wiped. So much so that I will usually procrastinate on the editing of our Thursday show, The NewsReel, until 4-5:00 am the next day. Yes, this sounds like a brutal cycle.
Back to yesterday, I had perfectly timed an evening coffee right before the podcast recording and it left me with a ton of energy to actually feel the urge to do the responsible thing and edit BEFORE I went to sleep. And you know what… MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! I finished the edit shortly after midnight, and it perfectly segued into an opportunity to reward myself with watching the finale for, and I can safely say it now, one of my favorite TV shows of all time, Station Eleven. After I finished watching the epic Station Eleven finale and trying to find anything on Twitter for more reactions to the finale, I decided to finally call it a [long] day. I had gotten ready for bed and was ready to put on a podcast so that I can get a good night’s rest. BUT… before I was able to, I discovered that my desk and the surrounding area on the walls had been infested with ANTS!!! Are you FREAKING KIDDING ME???? I spent the next couple of hours trying to kill every last one of them. I had tried to track down where they were coming from to no avail. Every time I had thought the last of the ants were done for, a handful more would pop up and I went from hella drowsy and cold… and ready to curl up under warm blankets to completely hot, exasperated, and burnt the eff out. Once I finally got done cleaning, winded down for the evening, and finally put on a podcast (on the Station Eleven finale), it was 4:00 am again the next day. I had just stayed awake for a full 24 hours, which at 41 didn’t think I would ever do again.
I will admit that most of the time, I feel like I should scale back with some of the things I have got going on. But as I’m typing up this blog post, I am coming up with new ideas with how to create new content to satisfy this creative itch that I’ve been wanting to scratch. Am I tapped out on energy? Definitely. Should I scale back? Probably. Should I take on more tasks to make myself even busier? HELL NAH. Will I listen to common sense and to my mind and body? Probably not. Ideas are constantly flowing.
