Rethinking things

Last night I talked on the phone with Wendy for nearly 90 minutes. Granted, she did a lot of the talking (more to share, trust me), but still, it was really fun. Maybe I need to rethink this self-proclaimed aversion to phones.

Last night I also went to a birthday party for a coworker, Andie, in Crystal City. I thought I'd stay an hour at most, ended up staying nearly two hours and had a really good time. Maybe I need to rethink my feeling that I'll never make my own friends out here.

This past weekend I took a road trip with Elizabeth and starting thinking about the tension between being successful in your professional life and being successful in your personal life. Specifically, the balance between the two and how to find it when you're in your mid to late twenties. Can one be happy with only one and not the other? Perhaps and that is a question left to sociologists, biologists and anthropologists. Can I be happy with one and not the other? Now, that is the question of the year, I think. Because, really, I think the answer is no, but then I think that I have been relatively happy for the last few years and that those years have not seen the most success on the personal/relationship side of things. These are not questions with answers, I know, but they are still worth posing (especially to yourself) every once in awhile.

The week has felt exceptionally long. I cannot believe that today is only Thursday and that it is not even 3pm yet. I have so much grading and entering of grades to get done, not to mention lesson planning and such. I think it is going to be a long night. And I think that is okay.

***Note: I need to start saving money for a shopping trip. I have lost over 20 lbs since last fall and most of my clothes looks rather silly on me. This is not a bad thing to have to deal with, but I will need to deal with it soon. Good thing I can be such a capitalist whore!