So, there are 168 hours in a week. I work 30 hours, which leaves 138. Remove school (8 hours) and you have 130. Travel time takes up another 9 hours, and morning prep along with lunches and dinners takes 14 leaving 109. Sleep - assuming 8 hours a night - removes another 56. Now, I'm supposed to put in 15 hours a week on my Sophomore film and the same amount (or more) on the projects I do for Animation III, so let's take out another 30 hours. Where are we at now? 23 hours. Not quite a day, and not to be had all at the same time. Spread over 7 days, this means I have roughly 3.5 hours of free time every day. Mind you, this doesn't include doing chores at home (especially shovelling the uneding amount of snow we have received this winter), or dealing with family (my sister needs a considerable amount of tech support and doesn't understand why I say no to her, which ends up angering my mother). I rarely see my wife nowadays since she's spending two whole days a week taking care of her father who is dying - and that doesn't include mental, moral, and emotional support that is necessary for that. So, basically I don't have time. That's incredibly frustrating for me, becasue I'm not doing half as good a job as I could doing. That makes me feel like I'm failing and I simply cannot stand that feeling. I'm angry, I'm frustrated, and I'm not sleeping much these days. Of course I'm not even calculating how much time it takes to write these bloody blog entries, but that's another story.
Will it get better? Well, the semester eventually does come to and end adn the projects will be over. Will I be happy about that? Maybe. It depends on how many compromises I have to make and just how good or bad I feel my final work will be. Stay tuned...
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