I have been away for about 8 days. During those 8 days I was "working" for, let's call it, seven and half days. The half day was officially just a reception but being far away from home without plans I also hung around on the Internet doing email and other things. THe last couple of days included one day where I traveled all day - leaving the hotel at 7AM Pacific time and getting to my house around 8PM Eastern time - and three days that basically started with a working breakfast and ending with a working dinner at the end of the day. So you'd think I'd be pretty much in the habit of working.
But no. I am in my comfortable home office with a long list of things to do, a huge backlog of email, and being fired up about my job from an exciting week of interesting things. OK well the long list of things is true. The backlog of email is true. And the being fired up about my job was true on Tuesday. I'm just exhausted today though. It was hard to get out of bed. It was hard to get into the office. And it has been super hard to get things done. Oh a couple of things have been done and some small progress has been made on the email backlog. But no way have I been as productive in the first hour of the day as I planned on being. I think I am going to set a few priorities - a couple of things really have to be done today - and push to get them done. I'm promising myself a nap afterwards as a reward. After the nap? Well we'll just have to see.