Day 3 - 145 -- short on time?

This is a short week. After a long weekend, a four-day work week sounds like a second mini-vacation. Yet, while sitting at my desk, I realized today that there was five days of work to cram into those four days. So perhaps this short week is really the price we pay for having a three day weekend. Three of the four items on today's list were completed, so work is already pushing into the next day -- a day that has its own list of things to do. Things seem to be poised to rain work down on me. This time of year requires clear focus and a 'head down' and move forward mindset. Course preparation for next Fall and winter terms and research paper writing are main activities of the spring and summer between academic terms.

The concept that we pay for the breaks we receive is an odd one. Some writers state that this is based in the Judeo-Christian work ethic. Growing up in an area of primary production -- agriculture, forestry, mining and petroleum sectors drive the prairie economy. I've often heard that it is the land of 'next year' thinking. For example, being a nation where weather watching should be the national sport,  if we have good weather one winter, next year we expect to get pummeled. In an odd way this seems like we don't feel deserving of anything good unless we've worked darn hard to get it, and maybe not even then.

Thinking of having less time this week seemed to fit the concept that things will change in the future. While the four days isn't fully negative or positive, I find it is an interesting experience to see and hear others and my own internal voice noting the negatives before the positives. The song chosen for today covers some ways of envisioning time even using the arrangement to embody time. The video shows time from an entirely different perspective, too.  Enjoy!

Time has come Today -- Chambers Brothers