I’m working from home today – something I’m supposed to be able to do on a regular basis but have been fearful of actually doing thus far – because I am sick. In two weeks of work I have had two things – the cold with which I started, and then yesterday I popped quite an impressive fever (103.5, once I got home) and a sore throat. I just went to bed with Noah and today I feel a bit better but opted to stay home and not spread the plague.
I still feel at loose ends and hope to email with my boss about it a bit today, or tomorrow. I know that my stuff is probably not being scrutinized in the way that I feel like it must be because I am nervous-new-person but I still feel like every minute wasted is bad news. Add sick to that and it kind of gets a bit crazy in my head.
I know I am sick because of new germs and stress, and that it is my body’s way of informing me that this transition was not well managed (fly around the country, come home, rush about madly, don’t get enough sleep, etc.) I am wondering how I can work some gym time into my schedule. When I was at home I thought I could just go on the way to work, or maybe at lunch (my gym has a branch around the corner), but now that I’ve done a couple of weeks I’ve found that I want all that time to get home as quickly as possible.
Which may not be sustainable and I’m sure there’s balance to be found, but it’s interesting how in my head I had constructed some ideal workplace and a day with more hours in it than average. :)
Yeah, the day with the extra hours in it. Always part of my ideal schedule too!
I’m actually feeling a bit like I’ve been gifted time, because an official document that I thought was due by the end of this week isn’t. As opposed to the previous similar document which I had 48 hours to produce because I was pretending I didn’t have to do it.
Glad to hear you are feeling a bit better after some good sleep. A day at home should be a big help.