Job Changes

What an odd feeling. I woke up this morning and had absolutely no idea what to start working on. I had a wee bit of this feeling on Saturday and on Sunday but since we were traveling, it was easy to just move through my morning and not get fixated on the jobs I was no longer doing. But this morning, that was odd. More than odd, but difficult to explain.

For more than six years I’ve been following a very specific routine. As soon as I wake up, I feed the animals, nuke a cup of day old coffee or a fresh cup of tea, I read my email and then visit a certain website and read a dozen or more message boards. Six years. The number of days I’ve deviated from that can be counted on two hands. Six years is a long time.

I’m not sure I can say that I miss those boards. I obviously miss some things about them, like hearing about the “regulars” and their lives and venting with my coworkers (though it is nice to not feel a need to “vent”.) It’s the change in routine that I was missing more than anything else this morning. I am a creature of habit. Now I have to create some new habits. That’s weird. And challenging. And interesting. Did I mention weird?