And just when I start to settle in....

It's back to Chicago for a week.

The agenda was sent out yesterday, and leaves very little time to get to know the city. Or breathe, for that matter.

It'll be cool to get together with the team and get out of south Florida for a few days, but I'm going to miss my kid, and I still feel like I need more time to get into a better routine. My days have been haphazard. I get up early, go through email, get the Kid up, take her to school, come back, start laundry, start a project, think about getting to the gym, put out a few fires, start a new task list, scribble... scribble...

I try to balance out my day by getting up from the computer and going for walks, but because I'm not settled in yet, the structure of my day is shaky at best. Which is why it's midnight on a Friday and I'm about to get into the network again and clean up the remains of the day.

I think I need a better office chair.

I've been using one of the back machines at the gym, but it focuses on lower back, and my upper back is killing me after a few hours in front of the computer. It helps to be able to get up and roll around the living room on a pilates ball, but I'd really prefer to be doing that out of lack of anything better to do, as opposed to back pain.

Ok, network. Cleaning up task list.

Ignoring yawning.

Note to self: start writing down notes to self, instead of just saying "note to self" in my head.

Note to self: Buy coffee. So very, very tired. Keep forgetting to buy coffee...