Blogging more, working less

A certain “highly-quotable chick” has noted that I'm not blogging so much these days. It's her fault, at least in part*, but I will try to remedy the situation nonetheless.

I work too much.

That's the short version, anyway. The long version is a little more involved. I've been somewhat under the weather recently; exhausted, never having enough time, and feeling it — physically, as well as psychologically.

Running through my large-scale to-do list reveals why. I'm working full-time for Tellme, both during the day and in my own time; I like it, and there's always too much to do. I'm under a somehow ever-increasing consulting workload, despite intending to work no more than a few hours a week. I'm also vainly attempting to get PhD work done, but I'm finding it very difficult to pin down any usefully-large blocks of time in which I can do anything but collapse into bed, or recuperate in other ways.

Add to these my own commitments: the contents of my projects page (sorry, Christoph Görn, for not yet posting any ab.py changes; sorry, Gerald Williams, for failing to debug my SMS processor since November; sorry to Bruce for utterly failing to give adequate feedback on your bibliographic ontology). twinql needs more work, and has been waiting for my private updates to hit the web for some time. I've been working on the SPARQL protocol, including doing what I can for the test suite; that takes time that I just don't have.

I want to play more guitar, spend more time enjoying life with said quotable chick, see my friends, and maybe get my PhD one of these days — let alone finally getting back in the dojo. I'm going to have to cut some things down, ‘un-maintain’ things, and start saying no. Otherwise I'm going to start breaking promises, and my health will suffer. I don't want to do either of those things.

* In a very nice way, of course!

Posted at 2006-02-09 22:42:31 by Richard • Link to Blogging more, wor…
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