Time is gobbled up

I have about two weeks to: * clean my house from top to bottom * shop and prep for Thanksgiving * complete the fantasy novel I am writing Panic much? My house is in disarray in part because I have been directing a play during all of October. The rehearsals (and the show itself) took place an hour or more from my home - depending on traffic. Then I was working most days with my Adventures in Substitute Teaching. Luckily, just got a message from my sister that my nephews are looking to earn some money. Looks like I have a cleaning crew- now I need to schedule them!

The To Do List

What a to-do to do today!

I am a list-maker. There is no point in denying it.

There is quite the list for today.

I have a play to read and review for a friend.

Follow up on the play I'll be directing in Detroit in the fall.

Follow up on the play I'll be directing in Chicago in January 2014.

Follow up on the play I finished directing last month.

Laundry.

Dishes.

Writing of my own. Which also requires a list: topics for scholarly articles must move up the list, returning to the NaNoWriMo novel, plays to return to and revise. A long list of anecdotes and topics for this blog and others. Letters to friends.

At the top of the list: Coffee.

First things first.

overextended

I really don't know how people do it.

I know that I am not the only one.

So many, many people are over-extended.

Working full time at a job. Working full time at a relationship. Working full time at a family. Continuing life long learning.

Working hard at playing! Working hard at relaxing!

As if!

Currently, I am teaching Sundays (2nd grade Hebrew and Jewish Theater), Mondays (undergraduate class in Intro to Theater), Tuesdays and Thursdays (3rd grade Hebrew). I am teaching/directing Mon-Fri for an hour a day (a Shakespearean production with 7th and 8th graders) and directing my youth theater troupe on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Saturdays are usually taken up with social obligations. See, it says "obligation" and it does feel more like an obligation than a day off.

So, how do people manage? I am eagerly awaiting the opening of the show in a few weeks, to relieve my Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings.

Looking forward still more to January and the end of the Monday through Friday commitment.

How do people manage?

On top of this I am working on a relationship, a family, serving on a board, trying to participate in a religious community.

I feel stressed, struggling and sometimes desperate.

And guilty.

Because I'm not even "full-time" at anything.

And because my house is a mess.

How do other people manage? Full time jobs, families AND a clean and orderly house?

back again

back at last.

Too much to do.

Somehow, will do it.

Working on dissertation project.

need to create 4, count 'em, 4 syllabi:
3rd grade Hebrew
Jewish Theater
Intro to Theater
-- dissertation project--

write a script

cast a play

and more

whew1