Day 5

Today is the first day of full-time with JHU. I have a work scheduled of 8:30-5 with 1 hour lunch break. I haven’t really worked someone else’s schedule in a LOOOOONG time with the exception of the 2.5 years I was teaching in a school. Yikes. I’m a little anxious about that.

So, I’ve got the candle lit and ready to sit down for morning meditation before I ‘go to work’. Now to actually go over and do it!


Well that didn’t happen! I did take a :30 break to attend the recap meeting this afternoon, and that was helpful. At the end of my workday, I plan to sit with myself and do a mediation and think about presence. Mostly I just want to take a nap!


So we’ll just call this a day and re-boot tomorrow better……

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