My week
I've been exhausted all week. Every evening after work I've been too tired to think much, let alone get any productive work done; I go to bed relatively early for me, get up relatively late for me, and am too tired to do anything; I go to work, sit through two to four hours of orientation-related activities, work on getting up to speed on new stuff, and then go home exhausted.
I think it's a combination of change being hard, introvert social exhaustion (lots of social interaction with groups of people I don't know, always difficult for me), and probably a minor cold of some sort.
I've been getting more sleep than usual—averaging about 7 to 9 hours a night this past week, instead of the 6-7 I'd been getting for months previous—but it's not helping. Though when I've had 9 hours of sleep I've at least been more on top of things in the morning. I sure hope I'm not turning into someone who needs 9 hours of sleep a night to function, 'cause that's not likely to happen so often, given my sleeping problems.
Anyway. Had a good editorial meeting with S&K the other night (which I wouldn't normally mention—most of our meetings are good—but I'm trying to focus on the good parts of this past week), and got to see Kam a few times since she got back from Europe. Took her to the airport this morning; she's flying down to LA again to help out her grandmother, who just went through surgery. Have had a couple of great long discussions of philosophy and science and politics in the past 24 hours, one with Kam and one with Susan; which means I haven't been as productive as I'd intended to today, but it was well worth it. I may even work up the nerve to post what I've been thinking about about political stuff at some point, though every time I start to write it up I bog down.
Oh, and I'm way behind on email. Lots of things people've sent me in the past couple weeks that I haven't even read yet, much less replied to. I apologize.
There are dozens of things I want to post about, but probably I'll decide that I really need to go do magazine stuff before I get through them all. We'll see.