Oh, I am just not good* at being busy. This semester I’m working full time in addition to teaching a class — that’s 43 hours out of the week that I have to be someplace and be working, never mind the unstructured class prep hours I need to work on top of that.

Now, technically, there are enough hours in the day to get everything done. But my brain just can’t stay in work mode long enough to make it happen. I keep napping on Saturdays, or sinking into a novel for just a minute, only to look up and realize hours have passed.

This morning, walking to work, I kept looking longingly into coffee shops, at people sitting in the corner with a notebook and their coffee, at teachers reading stacks of papers and hipsters with their dork-glasses and laptops. O, for an unstructured day!

*I started this post a few minutes ago, was called away, and came back to an entry that said “Oh, I am just not god”. What an awesome excuse for not getting stuff done. Thanks, id!