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14 years ago
Life is busy these days. I thought I had it rough in school and figured things would settle down now that I'm working. The truth is that I was basing this notion on high school and how I could juggle a menial job, class, homework, and recreation.
The truth of the matter is I had no idea how much time I had in college. Sure, there were papers, classes, and travel time when I came home. The thing is all those things were totally on my terms. I CHOSE to make class. In my entire college career, I can count times I intentionally skipped a class on one hand. And when I did, it really didn't matter, because I didn't need to be there, only know the material. My productivity was totally at my leisure, and I purposefully signed up for classes that let me sleep in so I could stay up at night and do whatever I wanted, be it homework or play.
Now I have a job out there and all my work is condensed into 8-9 hours depending on whether I take my allotted 1-hour unpaid lunch. My job is an hour away, so I need to wake up early, which is a struggle for a guy who's never been a morning person. When I get home, I generally have all the productivity out of my system and just want to vegetate. Weekends are less free time now and more recovery time.
How does this relate to the title? Well, really, it's a combination of not coming around nearly as often and not having the energy to go through the steps to reply to faves when I do. I mean I don't delete the messages. Everyone who leaves a comment or fave or watch gets a personalized message from me. I hate seeing lines of "Thanks for the fave!" on pages. It's lazy and people deserve more recognition than a copy/paste so standard that it's nearly universal and people put on their pages to stop spamming them with it. No, I actually put the effort into mine. "Glad you liked" may be a bit cockier, but I'll bet it's nicer to see it breaking up lines of meaningless clones. I add an emote, or not, or maybe a bit more of a message about the particular work, or my performance outlook at the time, but every last message I leave is hand typed.
It's just a bit more effort during a time when I'm out of energy quite often. Maybe things will slow down in the new year. The end of the year is hectic with the annual processing. I'm in the thick of it right now. So if it takes me a while to get back to you, it's not that I'm a jerk or lazy. I'm just half-dead and probably too fried to pay more than 10 minutes of attention to anything.
The truth of the matter is I had no idea how much time I had in college. Sure, there were papers, classes, and travel time when I came home. The thing is all those things were totally on my terms. I CHOSE to make class. In my entire college career, I can count times I intentionally skipped a class on one hand. And when I did, it really didn't matter, because I didn't need to be there, only know the material. My productivity was totally at my leisure, and I purposefully signed up for classes that let me sleep in so I could stay up at night and do whatever I wanted, be it homework or play.
Now I have a job out there and all my work is condensed into 8-9 hours depending on whether I take my allotted 1-hour unpaid lunch. My job is an hour away, so I need to wake up early, which is a struggle for a guy who's never been a morning person. When I get home, I generally have all the productivity out of my system and just want to vegetate. Weekends are less free time now and more recovery time.
How does this relate to the title? Well, really, it's a combination of not coming around nearly as often and not having the energy to go through the steps to reply to faves when I do. I mean I don't delete the messages. Everyone who leaves a comment or fave or watch gets a personalized message from me. I hate seeing lines of "Thanks for the fave!" on pages. It's lazy and people deserve more recognition than a copy/paste so standard that it's nearly universal and people put on their pages to stop spamming them with it. No, I actually put the effort into mine. "Glad you liked" may be a bit cockier, but I'll bet it's nicer to see it breaking up lines of meaningless clones. I add an emote, or not, or maybe a bit more of a message about the particular work, or my performance outlook at the time, but every last message I leave is hand typed.
It's just a bit more effort during a time when I'm out of energy quite often. Maybe things will slow down in the new year. The end of the year is hectic with the annual processing. I'm in the thick of it right now. So if it takes me a while to get back to you, it's not that I'm a jerk or lazy. I'm just half-dead and probably too fried to pay more than 10 minutes of attention to anything.
