Someone reminded me this past weekend that I had not updated my blog in what seemed like forever (a month and a half to be exact). While I could make a million excuses as to why I have been mostly absent from the blogopshere recently, the truth is as simple as this: my day job has been demanding a lot more of me. What used to be ‘blogging time’ after work is now ‘collect mental stability time’. To boot, that time is happening about two to three hours later in the evening.

Put more in perspective, I went from a work situation of six years where I did about 10 hours of paid overtime a year. In my job of the past six months, I’ve done about 70 hours of unpaid overtime. I’d be a liar if I said this wasn’t a hard adjustment, as I think it would be for anyone. It’s disconcerting at times to know that your extra work really has no surface value. Really, outside of the naive hope that it will help when reviews come around, it has no value at all. But such is the sacrifice when going from an hourly to a salaried position.

Throw in a longer commute time that includes an unreliable subway which often causes me to miss my connecting train, and a daily routine that has been stifling in terms of creativity, and you can understand my low blog appearance rate. So it goes. For now.

As most of you know, I am a persistent person so I know this shall pass… but I guess I just wanted you to hear me say it. I’m building up mental gasoline in the hopes that my desk chair will burst into flames and turbo-boost-eject me through the ceiling. At least, that’s the hope. Cross your fingers.