shift in light, shift in mood

[raptureofthemoon]

Ever since the time changed, I've had so much trouble motivating myself to work. 

As it gets colder and the sunlight gets weaker and I keep my curtains drawn so my office is a gray and purple cocoon lit only by corner lamps...all I want to do is play video games. Specifically, at the moment, Minecraft.

I think it's my way of hibernating. 

Which is fine for the weekends. 

But extra frustrating during the week. I find myself going back and forth between working on course updates for half an hour then spending 10 to 15 minutes on our server. 

Luckily, I'm not working on anything big at the moment. (And hopefully will not be working on anything big for the foreseeable future. (We've planned our 2026 to be focused more on updates to our course catalog than new development, with the new development that was already on the roster being done by our vendor and maybe our new hire.) 

Unluckily, the work I am doing right now is fairly mentally tedious. Which makes it even harder to be engaged. 

I suspect there's a little burnout too. Not just from work, but from lack of true downtime and the general state of the US and the world. 

I'm really looking forward to five days off next week and my two weeks off in December. 

Comments

[keplers_angels]

*solidarity*
I've been feeling super lethargic all year.