Commute day
Feb. 12th, 2014 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeCommute days are the worst. I lose two days a week this way, wherein nothing gets done except packing and travelling and maybe an errand or two. The worst are the days when I go home to Montreal, because I'm coming off a night shift. So I get back to my room at 6:00 or so (sometimes 6:30), and get some sleep. I've tried not sleeping on these days, and all it does is make me nearly fall asleep at the wheel of my car on my drive home. I know lots of people can manage on little to no sleep, but I simply don't have the constitution for that, given that I have to commute roughly 600km a week and generally don't get much sleep during night shifts.
So I have to sleep after a night shift. I usually get 5-7 hours of very broken sleep, because it's the middle of the day and the room is quite bright in spite of all the measures I've taken to darken it (light-blocking curtains & an eye mask).
Then I get up, have food, do some tidying, pack up my bags, and drive home. On the days like today when I have errands to run, it means I get home well after 19:00, usually closer to 20:00, and then an hour or two later, it's bedtime. It's not much better on the days when I go to Ottawa. I get up with the household, do laundry, try to get some chores done, maybe run an errand if I can, then drive to Ottawa, invariably hit rush hour traffic, buy groceries, go to my room, unpack, and by then it's nearly 20:00 which is bedtime before a day shift. As it is, I'm taking time out of that schedule to meet my commitment of writing a post for today, because it's not like I'll be able to do it when I get home, but it also means I'll be getting home later, as usual.
So that's two of my days off basically wasted for work, when I'm not getting paid for it. It's frustrating and demoralising if I let myself think about it too hard. All that time is spent doing basically nothing, when before I would have used it for other pursuits. Spending time with the family, writing, doing proper chores, running errands, seeing people, taking the dog for a walk, whatever. I know that my time at home is already not spent productively enough as it is, so having this time taken away from me is so frustrating.
All righty. On that note, I have bags to pack. I'm heading to Michael's after I leave, and to Shopper's because I'm pretty sure we need more milk at home. (Small child = we always need more milk, it's a rule) That means a late(r) night for me. Again.
So I have to sleep after a night shift. I usually get 5-7 hours of very broken sleep, because it's the middle of the day and the room is quite bright in spite of all the measures I've taken to darken it (light-blocking curtains & an eye mask).
Then I get up, have food, do some tidying, pack up my bags, and drive home. On the days like today when I have errands to run, it means I get home well after 19:00, usually closer to 20:00, and then an hour or two later, it's bedtime. It's not much better on the days when I go to Ottawa. I get up with the household, do laundry, try to get some chores done, maybe run an errand if I can, then drive to Ottawa, invariably hit rush hour traffic, buy groceries, go to my room, unpack, and by then it's nearly 20:00 which is bedtime before a day shift. As it is, I'm taking time out of that schedule to meet my commitment of writing a post for today, because it's not like I'll be able to do it when I get home, but it also means I'll be getting home later, as usual.
So that's two of my days off basically wasted for work, when I'm not getting paid for it. It's frustrating and demoralising if I let myself think about it too hard. All that time is spent doing basically nothing, when before I would have used it for other pursuits. Spending time with the family, writing, doing proper chores, running errands, seeing people, taking the dog for a walk, whatever. I know that my time at home is already not spent productively enough as it is, so having this time taken away from me is so frustrating.
All righty. On that note, I have bags to pack. I'm heading to Michael's after I leave, and to Shopper's because I'm pretty sure we need more milk at home. (Small child = we always need more milk, it's a rule) That means a late(r) night for me. Again.
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Date: 2014-02-12 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-13 01:39 am (UTC)The plan is to move closer to my job, but we can't do that until late 2015 because my go's pastry-making class (she's going to be a pastry chef!) won't be over until then and we don't want to pull Bean out of his current preschool.