10 Minute Increments in Everyday Ramblings

It is raining again but yesterday it didn’t. What a difference having a day without rain makes now and then.

I am struggling with time management this week. There isn’t enough of it with the time change and working overtime and making up the time for my dental appointment Monday. When I am doing something, another thing is not getting done.

One of the ways I am managing this is with a timer set for 10 minutes.

Take the big interesting book on the history of yoga from the library, 10 minutes reading a day. My tax organizer prep? (This is the hardest one for me.) 10 minutes a day. My physical therapy exercises which now number 14…you’ve got it…10 minutes a day.

There are other things not getting done but these are the big I need to do now ones.

Yesterday walking back from my PT appointment I finished listening to the 36 hours of How to Listen to Great Music, one of The Teaching Company, The Great Courses deals from Audible. I enjoyed that enormously and hope to listen to it again sometime.

He describes the Enlightenment in understandable and interesting ways and how it very much influenced contemporary music significantly and I felt like I understood it well for the first time so next up I am listening to his Music as a Mirror of History course on my fancy Bluetooth headphones as I wander around town.

And returning to Wolf Hall.

I heard a troubling statistic this morning (in a flood of troubling statistics) that enrollment applications from foreign students in U.S. institutions of higher learning are down 40% since the travel ban was first introduced.

Both my income and Most Honorable’s are based on institutions of higher learning and because I work for a medical school we are getting it from both sides now with the proposed new healthcare law and the lower enrollment. I think any gain in manufacturing and energy sector jobs in the next few years are going to be offset by job losses in healthcare and education.

So on top of a salary freeze I have been living with for three years and a hiring freeze it is going to be an anxious four years until we can get our current President out of office and then as bright young college educated people come on line do what we can to repair the damage.

Not that I won’t be working in the meantime to make things happen.

Somehow…probably in 10 minute a day increments.

Speaking of floods, we have a flood warning for the Columbia River right now. If it floods seriously it is a big deal as it is our biggest local river and it is moving fast right now and full of debris. I live on a hill so it won’t affect me, but we are also having some pretty significant mudslides around town.

There will be a sodden St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this evening, which will make my walk home from the studio a little more interesting than normal.

I hope you have fun whatever you choose to do.

Last updated March 17, 2017