For the next year, I am going to be super busy... In an awesome but exhausting kind of way. ...Weekend trip to Haerbin to play hockey, weekend trip to Beijing with thirty students for a MUN conference, weeklong trip to Gansu province, weekend trip to Xiamen to play hockey, flight to North America followed immediately by a three day professional development conference followed by a flight up North. Visit my parents for five days, then fly to Europe. Backpack around for six weeks, then fly to Beijing and then train back to my city to start work the next day. Start implementing a brand new AP program I've been designing this year while starting a Master's. I'm excited but tired just thinking about it. How much downtime do you need to be happy?
it depends on how i'm spending my uptime. if i'm super busy doing stuff i really enjoy, i need hardly any downtime. likewise, if i'm busy with something i don't enjoy, but there is an end in sight and some sort of payoff at the end, i still don't need much. if all i'm doing is working a shit job with no future prospects, i need a lot of downtime. i do need some no matter what of course. if everything is good, but i'm super busy, i'll still generally sacrifice an hour of much needed sleep to sit in the corner and read or something every night.
as much as I can get but I need a few hours a day. I only do things when I have to. If I don't have to go anywhere or do anything I'll sit in my Lazyboy, drink beer and watch sports...forever.
One, methinks, has never enough time. Before one knows it, one's old and can't do the youthfull things anymore one wanted to do when one was young, but hadn't the time to do so.
