Blue Monday - How was yours?
23/01/07 22:43 Filed in: Spacetime Tales
Some blogger am I,
forgetting to post about something relevant and then doing it in
retrospect. If you hadn't heard, monday was calculated to be the
worst day of the year. The main reasons are: the parties are all
over, the visa bill from xmas shopping has just arrived, and most
initial steam from a resolution has been lost by this point.
Mine was pretty great! I taught a couple hours in the morning and then headed to work until 9. The total daily (7.5hrs) wage, about $230CAD, is more than I have ever earned in a day, so that felt good. Then I dropped off some teaching materials at the home of a truly inspirational duo - Tad and Anthony. I met Anthony this summer and he is the guy that has hooked me up with some classes and given me a lot of kickass advice. He's also the guy that inspired me to ditch my job situation, because he, doing private lessons exclusively, works 3 months, then takes 3 months off to travel, year round. Tad is his tagteam partner, and he stays at Anthony's place when they switch. It isn't often that I meet someone with whom I have a lot in common, but this was epic. We talked hiking gear, travel, teaching, English lit (same degree), Macs, Mac software, personal productivity, the same sites we both have RSS feeds to -- it was shocking. Normally I would tenuously venture, "Have you heard of Getting Things Done?" But not only had he heard of it, he was implementing it with damn near the same software, freeware, pda and pda sync set up as me! He was reading the same geeky sites about Getting Things Done and similarly waiting anxiously for that stopgap program destined to come out soon.
I dropped by at 9:30 and ended up staying until nearly midnight -- not a bad Blue Monday at all!
Mine was pretty great! I taught a couple hours in the morning and then headed to work until 9. The total daily (7.5hrs) wage, about $230CAD, is more than I have ever earned in a day, so that felt good. Then I dropped off some teaching materials at the home of a truly inspirational duo - Tad and Anthony. I met Anthony this summer and he is the guy that has hooked me up with some classes and given me a lot of kickass advice. He's also the guy that inspired me to ditch my job situation, because he, doing private lessons exclusively, works 3 months, then takes 3 months off to travel, year round. Tad is his tagteam partner, and he stays at Anthony's place when they switch. It isn't often that I meet someone with whom I have a lot in common, but this was epic. We talked hiking gear, travel, teaching, English lit (same degree), Macs, Mac software, personal productivity, the same sites we both have RSS feeds to -- it was shocking. Normally I would tenuously venture, "Have you heard of Getting Things Done?" But not only had he heard of it, he was implementing it with damn near the same software, freeware, pda and pda sync set up as me! He was reading the same geeky sites about Getting Things Done and similarly waiting anxiously for that stopgap program destined to come out soon.
I dropped by at 9:30 and ended up staying until nearly midnight -- not a bad Blue Monday at all!
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