05.Jul.2009 Sunday Salon: Kind of Away But Not Really
I just started working again last week after 9 months of off time. While it’s good to be able to earn some money again, I practically have no time to do the little things that I enjoyed doing when I was.., you know, unemployed =P
My current working hour is 10 hours a day and it takes me 1.5 hour each way to travel to work. So that’s 13 hours outside home. If I sleep around 7-8 hours a day and spend around an hour to get ready for work and around an hour to wind down after work… well… you do the math. That’s about an hour left to do my own stuff.
I can still read during my travel to and from work, so it’s not so bad in that regard. But I literally have very little (or no) blogging time now. I’m gonna try to still post something midweek. The bad thing is it just seems that I have to choose between blog-writing or blog-reading. I have to cut a lot of my blog-reading and visiting time if I want to post something at all. *sigh*
I’d like to apologize in advance if I can no longer catch up with the blogging community. I do hope to visit some blogs in the weekend, or more if I can steal some minutes midweek. I will really miss you all! (Gosh I sound like I’m going away for good.)
Going back to books, I finally compiled my challenge pages for Booker, Orange, and Pulitzer (they’re on the side bar under Perpetual Challenges). I would like to read one book each year from the list of winner OR shortlist OR longlist (because, let’s admit it, the winner isn’t always the best of the lot). Now that I have the lists here I can keep track of them better and hopefully have more nagging feeling to read more from these prize lists.
Have a nice and productive week everyone!
mee 
