See.. the Borg for some reason, rarely, if ever, takes a lunch break. It is allowed - encouraged I'm sure - by the company, but I never seem to take one.
By the time I think about taking one, it's almost 3 PM, and it seems silly when the end of the day is so close.
But today. At 1 PM, I walked away from my cube, took my personal laptop, started my timer for 30 minutes, and then started this.
There are a lot of reasons I don't go out for lunch. The biggest one is probably that I'm an idiot.
The other reasons primarily stem from my ADD. I'm usually too hyper focused on what I'm doing to break away. My ADD drugs suppress my appetite (sometimes, not always, though), so I'm often not very hungry until.. let's say... 3 PM.
But the other reason has to do with laziness. We're situated in an industrial park that has some heavy traffic to get to places to get food. The company - in theory - sets 30 minutes for the lunch break. I'm not an hourly employee anymore, so that applies less to me, but, it's difficult to leave the office, get in your car, go get lunch and pick it up, and be back in the office with more than five minutes remaining to eat. We also don't have much of a lunch room, frankly. I've escaped to a secret room today.
At some level these are all excuses. I often feel like five more minutes on x, y or z will get me that much closer to the place of peace and harmony where I'm actually caught up at work. HA!
But I want to work harder at trying to find balance. Trying to have interests and occupations outside of work. It's hard, though, after work because I come home exhausted. So it's hard to then pull out the shiny new MacBook Air and pound out a blog post - or even an e-mail to a family member or friend. I'm exhausted and all I want to do is veg. And eat. And spend time with my wife.
The problem with that scenario / equation, is that I am out of balance. I don't seem to take time for me.
I could get up earlier in the morning, and carve out some time for myself - and I do that on occasion. But it is really hard to leave my comfy bed and my snuggly wife to get up and do what? Exercise.. well.. that does sound like it might be important.. but unstructured time for just myself? I want to get up early for that?
All work and no play makes Borg a dull blogger. Ha. All work and no play makes Borg not a blogger at all.
Hence this sprint for a thirty minute break and a quick pointed rambling blog post to grease the writing wheels again. Rambling, after all, is my style. My art form.
Are you good about taking the breaks that are offered to you? About finding balance in your life? Enquiring Borgs want to know.
(oh, and P.S. could someone send an ambulance to my wife who will get notification when this posts and be shocked that her wife is blogging (again - although possibly only this once?). She may experience cardiac arrest... )
(hitting "post" with a few minutes to spare to munch on a few nuts - wait, that sounds wrong)
