I’m tired of commuting! Thursday afternoon’s commute, from Hyde Park to Bolingbrook, took 2 hours. It’s 35.4 miles … sheesh!
On an good week, when there’s no traffic, and there aren’t extraneous meetings I have to attend in Hyde Park — on a good week I can get by with only driving 9.75 hours. But when there’s traffic, or when there’s a busy CPE schedule, it can get closer to 14 hours a week. And I definitely can’t stay connected with people by doing all this commuting. My friends in Hyde Park lament how little they see me. Heidi and I have to carve out time to sit together where her church schedule and my work/school schedules don’t fight. And I’m starting to take a professor’s advice seriously: I need to configure my laptop for voice commands and then I can type audibly as I drive. (He claims it’s what got him through a long commuting schedule last summer when he was teaching at a different location).
I’m also dropping more out of shape than I expected. Last year during my internship I gained 15 pounds. Just think: what if I could use those 10 hours a week to work out instead of drive? I’d feel amazing!
I’m SO eager for the time (foreseeably in June) when the commute will stop.
On another note, I learned a huge benefit of in-laws the other day. I got out of a meeting a block away from Heidi’s parents’ house. It was raining and I still had to walk a mile. So I called Larry, who was home for lunch, and jogged over the block to get an umbrella!
Yippee!
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