First of all, my sleep schedule is totally and completely out of whack. Since last Tuesday when I drank coffee after 3pm and couldn’t sleep, to Wednesday when I stayed up all night and got on a plane at 6am, to traveling to the East Coast and suffering through the time difference was rough enough. Then add two nights of staying out and up ’til 5am in the city that literally NEVER SLEEPS, I don’t know how I’ll ever get back on a normal schedule.
To cope through today, I had bottomless coffee again- and just ask Eliz, it makes me CRAZY. Crazy productive, and a crazy chatterbox (ask Embo and Best Fried Joanna – I talked their ears off today). But the interesting thing is that I drank all this coffee over a 4 hour meeting that completely re-inspired me to continue on this path I’ve placed myself on.
Let me pause myself and say, “since when do I say things about being on paths”?
It truly was an amazing meeting with a woman who will be designing the layout for a conference program I’m working on. It could have taken 30 minutes, but instead we talked over the course of four hours about everything under the sun – and the opportunity and desire for this woman to become a mentor was overwhelming. She lives the way I’m trying to learn how to live again and I have so far to go. But everything about it feels right. Scary, but right.
I realized how important it is to me to have the flexibility to sit somewhere and talk and not have time limits to adhere to. Yes, some structure is necessary, but if another appointment had demanded that I cut our conversation short, it would have been an incredible loss.
So I’m coming off the high of an exciting and stimulating EPIP Board of Advisors meeting, the most well-rounded 48 hour tour through the Big Apple, and some serious sleep deprivation and I’m LOVING IT.
That is all.
Posted on March 9, 2010
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