It’s been a rough end/beginning of the year

Hey y’all. It’s another update instead of a proper autism-centric post. I have a couple ideas for blog posts, but the fact is, I’m working 70 hours a week on average. Down from 80-ish in December, but still too much for me to manage and have this updating.

I miss being myself outside of work. Literally, I don’t have hobbies or time for my vocation, and haven’t for over two months.

And I’m struggling hard at work, in part due to the long hours literally just breaking my body down. And in part because the working conditions really aren’t great. It’s that way for a lot of reasons I have zero control over. But because of how things are for me right now, I still need to stay there or find a comparable job elsewhere.

I’m really tired.

As of tomorrow (or possibly several days ago, it’s unclear), I’ve reached my 90 days and have union protection. So my job is pretty secure. But the security came at a terrible cost to my body and mind, and I’m going to see about leveraging that security to recuperate.

Once I’ve done so and gotten some of that fabled R&R (or at least caught up on my sleep somewhat), I’ll be able to work on this blog more, and/or begin the autism book I always wanted to write.

I hope y’all are well, or as well as can be expected in such a trying year, with the pandemic still going. Wishing you all the best from my little corner of the world.