The job is finally catching up. We’re swinging into high gear and that means late nights and long days. Obviously, this is what I expected from the beginning, but now it’s a little bizarre. I have spent the previous weeks very relaxed, albeit frustrated, and now we are getting ready for a crunch time. Personally, this excites me more than anything. Knowing that we are actually getting out there, doing the outreach to students and creating a damned movement around these issues is cool.
The downside being the PIRG effect on my social life. Not that I have a huge one, but the job already takes plenty of my weekends and drains a lot of my free time. Now that free time will shrink to be even smaller.
Being caught between a “duty” and a desire is a pain the ass. The fun part now comes when I try to work what is quickly becoming a relationship around a work schedule that causes (literal) insanity and more interoffice relationships due to a lack of social life than any other job I’ve ever heard of! Such is the life of those of us who chose to do good things for other people.
Don’t act like I want you to color me a martyr, I knew the stakes before I joined this game. That doesn’t mean I have to like them any more than I do, however.
Just as a note, it’s about 11:30, I’ve been home for about a half hour. I got into work at 9am. That’s a long day.
justinª