Enslaved by Peer Pressure

hello world!

April was just a miserable month for me. At work, we lost two people at the end of March and I had to cover for both of their jobs in addition to my own. At school, i was going through finals, which ended on April 30th. At home, I had hired contractors who were coming in for, yes, the last week of April. And with the love of my life, ursamajor, I'm planning to get married in Korea on the 24th. This is exciting, but also means that it's super busy. But that's not all!

Lynne and I are also looking for a new place to live, since neither of us like each other's residences and we figure that we should probably live together at some point after getting married. So, this means we've got to sell our places and buy a new place. And this means that I've had to put off other things. For instance, my friend Sam Yoon is running for the mayor of Boston and even though he's the smartest and most progressive of the candidates out there, I have no time to actually help him out. There are a couple of business ideas that I've been charting out in my head, but have had no time to convert them into actual businesses. And I vaguely remember being a musician at some point in time, but singing and cello are definitely farther down on my list of to-dos.

I think that if I had to rank things to do at this point, they go something like:
1) marriage
2) work
3) home issues
4) school
5) daily life issues (food, paying bills)
6) personal fitness
7) business ideas
8) politics
9) music

As you can guess, it's a struggle to get to #5, much less #7 or #8. And when I have spare time at this point, I'm paralyzed with indecision. I actually got home one night this week before 7 PM for the first time since January and didn't know what to do! By the time I figured out what I could do, it was 9:30 and I might as well have been stuck in class or work or something.

I sure hope that ursamajor is a bit saner and has figured what the heck is going on, because at this point, I'm just showing up at places and hoping that everything has been figured out for me. ;) This is pretty much true for every aspect of my life. I'm sure that things will slow down next year when house and wedding issues are out of the way and school is finished or on the way (I have three classes left to finish this damn MBA). Then I can focus more on actually being more human and well-rounded!