Random Bullets
- This isn't one of those tips I've seen on any of the GTD blogs, but it's one I intend to follow: only read/respond to work-related email on weekdays during business hours. I've been easing into it, and the regaining of mood stability has been dramatic and very healthy for me.
- Foods cooked this weekend: Salty Tuscan Pork Chops with Caramelized Apples and Shallots, more granola, more Black Beans with Rice, Curried Chickpeas and Tofu, Beef and Barley Soup with Escarole (we used chard, the recommended substitute, and rice instead of barley, which we couldn't find).
- I've never eaten healthier in my life. Again, this book is the greatest -- even if you're not pregnant. Jonathan and I think we'll keep following the diabetic diet even after the baby's born. I never thought about my blood sugar before or realized how important it is to regulate it. I have a LOT of diabetes in my family, so I want to be careful.
- 32 weeks, 2 days -- is how pregnant I am. I think FG has grown some extra limbs or something; I feel kicking and punching all over. Around the early second trimester, I had been concerned about doing kick counts and about not feeling enough movement. With kick counts, you see how much time it takes for you to feel "10 kicks, flutters, swishes, or rolls." If it takes over two hours, then there might be a problem. I think I feel that number of movements every couple of minutes.
- Teaching prep and then sleep await; hopefully I can post again before a whole other week passes.
Comments
Limiting Work Hours
I struggled with limiting my work time for about a year after I began teaching. My situation is different because I just have the M.A. and there is no pressure to research, etc., but regardless, I think it's very easy to get sucked into this notion of working all the time and that it's not worthwhile unless you are. I was in a such a go-go mindset while in grad school that once I began teaching, I transferred all of that to my new focus. It was not healthy for me. I'm glad to see that you're thinking about it.
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