Next time I won’t say anything.

Did I say “managing stress” and “I think I’m done now”? El. Oh. El.

Posting is going to be sporadic the next couple of weeks: I finally photographed the witchy socks, but free time is currently practically nonexistent. I’m trying to give myself time to relax before going to bed, and so when I finally finish with my day’s work at 11p.m. I have to decide between a myriad of things to do: should I answer e-mails? Should I read blogs from Google Reader? Should I finally check up on Scribble Society or that RPG I haven’t looked at in, uh… weeks?

Or should I give my eyes a rest at 11p.m. and turn off the computer and write a letter? Or write in my journal? Or turn on some music, close my eyes and work on a stockinette project (toast)? (Now I completely understand by what people mean when they say they like stockinette projects when their brain is mush. What will I do when I’m done?!) Maybe I could go for a walk?! My muscles could use some exercise (after an entire day of sitting and reading, because you know… it’s 11p.m.)

Really, today I wanted to get done at 10p.m., but… somehow that didn’t work. I’ve got quite a pattern going now of working until 11p.m. My only problem is not quite enough sleep: I could concentrate fairly well in the afternoon and evening, but in the morning I still wasted a couple of hours because I was too tired to concentrate.

Still working on that “balance” thing.

So I think I’m going to go wash some dishes, hang up my laundry, and drink some calming tea made for bedtime. Because I could use the help falling asleep with all the tension in my shoulders. And class comes fairly early tomorrow, and I have to be on this time around. I think tonight I’ll write in the journal for a little bit and knit until I fall asleep, which hopefully will be soon.