Organizational Fatigue
28/08/07 23:23 Filed in: Work
August
has roared past and it hasn't been the best of months. I've somehow
managed to piss off an old friend back in Canada without really
knowing how, lose a couple students and nearly lose another today,
drop out of contact with some friends here (are you alive Tad?) and
generally feel as though the tides are flowing against me.
Part of the frustration has been in patching together something of a social life nearly from scratch. I didn't realize how much I had been depending on Aeon for socializing until I left and became well acquainted with solo saturdays. That's been depressing.
Another big issue was my schedule. I've been using Apple's iCal because I often use email to schedule classes; the problem, however, is that I can't take it with me. This resulted in a hungover Perrin riding his bike over the mountain for a lesson only to arrive and find himself early. 4 hours early. That same day was plagued with the anxiety that I was going to miss another lesson because I couldn't remember the time. Turns out that was irrelevant: I had recorded the wrong time in iCal anyway and waited fruitlessly in Starbucks for over an hour.
So I am going back, after a year's romance with a PDA to a paper planner. I loathe the whole sync process. One change to either the computer or pda schedule and you have introduced either a) error or b) the necessity to sync again. Syncing is also a time-swallower at nearly 5 minutes a pop depending on what I sync. And so when the sync cable broke, so too did my will to screw with that anymore.
Anyway, Rapidweaver just put out a big update so it may upload faster for me. Last time I uploaded it took 2 hours - hardly the smart uploading they were touting for this version I bought. I changed some settings - someone (if someone is actually reading this ill-updated generalist blog) please leave a comment as well - I want to see if that is different too.
Part of the frustration has been in patching together something of a social life nearly from scratch. I didn't realize how much I had been depending on Aeon for socializing until I left and became well acquainted with solo saturdays. That's been depressing.
Another big issue was my schedule. I've been using Apple's iCal because I often use email to schedule classes; the problem, however, is that I can't take it with me. This resulted in a hungover Perrin riding his bike over the mountain for a lesson only to arrive and find himself early. 4 hours early. That same day was plagued with the anxiety that I was going to miss another lesson because I couldn't remember the time. Turns out that was irrelevant: I had recorded the wrong time in iCal anyway and waited fruitlessly in Starbucks for over an hour.
So I am going back, after a year's romance with a PDA to a paper planner. I loathe the whole sync process. One change to either the computer or pda schedule and you have introduced either a) error or b) the necessity to sync again. Syncing is also a time-swallower at nearly 5 minutes a pop depending on what I sync. And so when the sync cable broke, so too did my will to screw with that anymore.
Anyway, Rapidweaver just put out a big update so it may upload faster for me. Last time I uploaded it took 2 hours - hardly the smart uploading they were touting for this version I bought. I changed some settings - someone (if someone is actually reading this ill-updated generalist blog) please leave a comment as well - I want to see if that is different too.