...that my daughter needs me along to "go do stuff?" I've got a massive amount of work to do for school with several deadlines coming up next week, but she made me feel guilty when I told her I couldn't run around with her instead, so I ended up going out to the bookstore with her and some other family members. Then they chattered on and on in the car around me the whole drive and just about drove me up the wall. I came close to having a screaming fit on the way home. Now, I've lost three and a half hours -- bookstore, then it was dinnertime, then another quick stop -- and my nerves are jangling and all I want to do is sit and cry. Once I calm down, I'm going to be so exhausted I won't be good for anything at all.
I realize we don't really get to see much of each other between her work schedule and my school schedule, but I can't seem to get across to her that weekends are not play-time for me. They're the only time I have to work on my thesis research and do much of my reading for my classes. Just because I don't have classes, doesn't mean that I don't have work to do.
27 Feb 2010, 9:31 pm
