Until Christmas, I wasn’t really doing very much. I went out to Morris practice on Tuesday evening and Jive+ on Wednesday, and that was about it. Other than that, I was doing pretty much nothing all week.
And now, all of a sudden, I am busy all the time.
Firstly, I am now busy in the day-time. Initially, this was because the Job Centre had sent me on a New Deal course with A4E in Oxford. I have since managed to get out of that by getting a job. It’s only a temporary job and I have no idea how long it’s going to last, but it is at least some work for the moment. Obviously, this has largely filled up my daytimes during the week.
But more of half of my evenings are now filled up as well. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve started dancing twice a week, so with that and morris I’m out Monday to Wednesday evenings, plus I’m now finally getting some roleplaying in at last on a Thursday night. That’s more than half the evenings in the week filled with regular things. That leaves Friday, Saturday and Sunday free, but those are often also filled with morris ales, jive freestyles, music sessions, concerts and the like.
The strange thing about all this is the way it seems to have snuck up on me. I’ve gone from doing nothing and spending my time being bored and a bit lonely to being fairly busy most of the time almost instantaneously and by virtue of only a few small changes in my overall situation. I don’t know how long it will last. As I say, my current job is only temporary and could end at any time, and while I do have a few other possibilities on the horizon there’s nothing anywhere near certain as of yet. If that comes to an end my daytimes will become free again and I’ll only be left with the evenings to do anything. But for now at least, I am quite busy for the first time in ages and although it’s somewhat tiring (and particularly means I have to be very careful about getting to bed on time as I rarely have the opportunity to get an early night to make up for a previous late one), this is definitely a Good Thing.