Frustration

I'm just feeling annoyed with everything right now. I feel completely drained from the day. There were a whole bunch of extra things I had to do today that ate up all my time.

First, I had to stay late in GIS because there was a guest visitor. We're allowed to leave on Fridays after we finish our lab, but this guy came in the second half of class and talked for 45 minutes about how it's better to understand the program concepts rather than the specific Arc-GIS that we're being trained to use. He also talked about the importance of learning Python because old programs like Fortran are now out of date. Don't get me wrong, those are both good points. It was useful advice to me for preparing for my career. But he could have talked about that in 5 minutes, instead of 45.

Then my lunch break was even shorter because I went for the last CMG short course. But apparently now that wasn't the last, he wants us to come again on Monday. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to be learning CMG. It's just that I signed up for this because I thought it was a one-weekend class. It wasn't supposed to continue this week, let alone next week.

Then there was a geothermal team meeting this week, because next week we have the day off for Thanksgiving, so it met this week instead. Right after that I had to go to the LEEP talk about fracturing on Venus. My advisor had specifically asked us to go to it because apparently nobody goes to the guest lectures when they come and it looks bad on our program.

I get it, I really do. If I had all the time in the world, I would love to do all these extra things. But I don't have all the time in the world. I'm behind on everything. Behind on my GIS project, on my strat paper, and on my grading. And I'm never going to catch up if I have to keep doing all these extra things all the time. Because now, it's the end of the day and I'm completely drained. My lunch break was reduced from 3 hours to 30 minutes. I had to stay late today an extra 2 hours. Yes it's not even 6 pm, but I don't have the energy or desire to do anything productive because I'm so tired. Ugh.

Plus, I hate people who argue with everything I say. People who pick out small details that are unimportant compared to what else is being said, and choose to argue with me about those things instead of focusing on the main points. My sister did this on my post talking about jobs vs. school. I had said something like, "When you have a job you have 5 evenings completely free and 2 whole days on the weekend completely free." And then my sister had been all, "pshh there are lots of jobs not like that. I've worked at jobs not like that."

Yes, I'm aware that some people work nights and some people work weekends. My main point in saying that was not to say that every single person works from 9-5 Monday through Friday. I only said it like that because those are the hours I would like to have for my job. My main point was that having a job is better than being in school because no matter what your hours, you have way more free time than in school. Unless you're like Alex, who explained that he works 3 jobs/75 hour work weeks (his choice).