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Burnout and switching gears

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I have been having a lot of burn-out at work. The kids are amazing, the school is fun, but at this point of the year I am just exhausted. By the time I get home I am just spent, and cannot function. My wife understands, and my children do to. But this makes me feel worse, because I wish I could spend more time with them.

When the children have gone down to bed, I am able to function mostly normal, but that is 4 hours after school. I get about hour or so where I can talk and play.

Another thing I do to decompress lately is write. I have re-discovered my high school passion for writing, and have been working on a novel. To be fair I have 3 or 4 novels started, and one that I had started but I cannot find my files for (But I wish I still had them).

I don’t know If I will finish my high school novels or not. I was looking through them and my writing has evolved a lot since then, but also the themes I am interested in have changed, and I don’t know if I would want to taint those stories or not. We will see in the near future.

I finished my 2nd draft of the most recent novel, and have sent it off to some friends to critique. I may have to have an editor rip it apart for me. But I feel like I shouldn’t publish it until 3rd or 4th draft have been fixed up. I would also have to find an artist for the covers, if I am to self-publish. No I don’t believe in using AI art if I am to publish it professionally. (I know I use AI Art here, but I don’t get paid here).

As soon as I am ready I will look into publishing. But now you know why I have been so quiet.

Life Update 2023

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So you may have noticed I have been using my blog here to keep an updated journal of a fictitious character from my Dungeons & Dragons game. It is a convenient spot to do this. I will be continuing to do this, at least once a week here, but I don’t want to just do that.

I spent the last couple of days going back through my older posts and putting them into categories, as I had 100 posts in the “Uncategorized” group, and that seemed odd to me, so I organized them.

Tomorrow, I go back to work, as we have been on vacation for the last 7 weeks. This was an attempt by the school to accommodate students and teachers who might be traveling abroad during the winter break. When the calendar was decided at the beginning of the year, we were all still under a semi-lockdown.

We needed daily or bi-daily Nucleic Acid Tests, just to enter the school, this evidence was also required to enter supermarkets, restaurants, or pretty much anywhere. We migrated to online classes in Mid-November, and so pretty much everyone was shocked when in January it was announced to just open everything up.

No more tests to enter places, no more vaccines mandates, or checking for health to go to supermarkets, travel, or anything. No more quarantine. quite a few teachers took that as a sign to go home for the holiday, where they had originally planned to stay due to fears of quarantine when they returned. But what this meant for the holiday was, that we now had a super long winter break, and the original reason for it was made moot.

Now when I say super long vacation, it really is just a combination of 3 separate holidays we would have had normally. Normally we would get a Christmas break, a Chinese New Year’s break and a Spring break, in December, February and April respectively. Now we get the one massive one, and no big breaks for the rest of the year. Again, great idea at the time, but made moot by the last-minute change in covid-climate.

I am quite happy that everything is opening and recovering. But it will be a long second semester which may be harsh on the kids. I hope that everything works out.

More later.