Whew!

My first journal entry in February and, in fact, in a couple of weeks now. Due to my new job, my alarm goes off at 5:45. I get in the shower, have a couple of minutes to check my email, then go catch a bus. From there, I get a train, get off at a certain stop, transfer to another train, get off, and get on another bus. When I get off that bus, I have about a 10 minute walk to work. Typically I arrive around 8:30 – 8:40.

Coming home is a little bit easier, because it’s just a single train in that direction. I get home around 7:30 – 8:00, depending on whether I can leave work earlier than 6:00 or not. But that still only gives me a couple of hours to eat, relax, and see Michelle before dropping off to bed. If I stay up late, I pay for it later in lack of sleep. Needless to say I haven’t been enjoying the same “carefree, time-on-my-hands” atmosphere that I had over the past couple of years. Of course, I’m getting paid now so I can’t really complain.

I’m sure that other things have happened that I would normally have commented on earlier. I’ll have to try to remember them for the next time I have some spare time…