This week

This week, I need to schedule my time, even my day-work time, which I never do on here. But it's getting a tad insane in my little corner of the world. Normally my job is difficult, but not stressful, which allows me to do all my other stuff without feeling insane. Now, it's difficult and stressful, so I'm either going to A) explode like that asteroid I posted previously or B) schedule myself like crazy. Luckily I finagled a work at home day tomorrow so I can plow through stuff without all the office B.S. to interrupt me.

So, here goes:
Tonight
Staighten up (just the stuff that will drive me insane if I don't do it)
Start revision of chapter for IS project.


Tues
Morning goals: yoga/meditation, walk Chloe

Daytime goals:
* Finalize infertility content (2 long pieces , 2 shorter infertility supplements). Choose artwork.
* Edit heart piece, get it approved. Choose artwork for piece.

*Get fact checking back to the Men's Health doctor for review

Evening goals:
*Get down as much of a revision of the chapter for my IS project as I possibly can.
*Laundry, knitting as I can manage

Wednesday
Daytime goals
*Get infertility/heart content approved and out of my hair
*Interview intern candidates
*Update back content per new developments in heart disease
*Get press release ideas to freelancer


Evening goals:
*Start French class
*Finish draft of revision

Thursday
Daytime Goals
*Finalize cold and flu report
*Carryover from Wed.

Evening goals
*Finalize revision of IS chapter
*Possibly knit with friends if time allows

Friday
Daytime goals
*Clean up/pick up on all the stuff that I wanted to get done earlier in the week but didn't.

Evening goals
*Leave for NY! This weekend we'll be at my parents' house, and I'm going to try, try try to really relax for the first time in a while. Whoo!

Feeling like my head might explode

I was scooting along just fine, but now I'm feeling a huge sense of
overwhelm. I think this has a few sources: 1-I'm going away this
weekend so I need to get my MFA submission done tonight. 2-I want to
cook a bunch of yummy treats for my trip, which will compromise how
much time I have to work on writing tonight. 3-My "day job" has been
crazy this week. 4-I've been putting together a proposal for a large
freelance project. The amount of time/work this will take is daunting,
but more than that, the thought of negotiating the cost of the project
is stressful for me (and I have to do that in a phone meeting today).
5-I *think* I will be volunteering at 827 soon. I am almost too
overwhelmed to be excited. 6-I'm behind on my interdisciplinary MFA
project. My advisor is very understanding, but I still feel bad. Plus,
that means next week, when I normally let myself relax a bit between
submissions, I will be busting ass on that.

What am I going to do? I just don't know. A personal day is surely in order for next week. And I may try to throw a massage in there, too. But even that may not
be enough! Suggestions or just tele-hugs are welcome.