TIME-OUT...please?!

So it's been one of those weeks where I spend about 45mins at home between 9am - 10pm and am constantly rushing from one thing to another. Although it's all exciting stuff; rosary prayer group, psychiatric assessment at police station , talk on theology of the body, restaurant dinner with friends, parent's house, teaching sessions, child psychiatry clinics (which are based on a site 40 MINUTES cycle ride from the city centre!! And although I am notorious for cycling at the speed of light, so it only takes me about 25mins, it is still a pretty tiring! Especially as I destroyed my bike by cycling along a really badly smashed up pavement and so the mudguard has half broken off and now bounces off my wheel, really slowing me down!), psychiatric teaching sessions, electro-convulsive therapy, (unfortunatly had to miss Mass yesterday evening! waa!),....so yeh, while it's all exciting and interesting stuff, man is it tiring!! Chris & I then try to slot in cooking & eating dinner in the 45minutes between coming home after 'work' and going out for whatever is on in the evening. I calculated that I've spent an hour each day this week JUST CYCLING from one place to another!! EACH DAY!


Plus Chris is doing a lot of rowing these days too; from 7am - 2pm 6 days a week (they are training for a big race) and so he is also mega exhausted in the evenings!

It is 8:20am now & I am about to cycle off for spiritual direction with my pseduo-spiritual directior (he's not my *official* spiritual director, but he he gives me spiritual direction anyway!) .
I am looking forward to it and am so grateful to him, but (if I may moan for a second!) it will be a 25min cycle ride (at Antonia-speed) to meet him,followed by a 35 minute cycle ride to the psychiatry unit where I am based for the day (then I have some 10minute cycling trips within the psychiatry base to get between teaching sessions).
I'll be home for about 1.5hrs this evening (thank goodness!) and then I have a dinner tonight with some of the new medical students (as part of a welcoming "parenting" scheme for the new guys who've arrived this year!). So another packed and frantic day! It's all good fun, and I guess I'd rather be doing it all than not, but I am ever so tired by 11pm!!

Tomorrow morning I am then going to get up at the crack of dawn cos I want to go to Mass for the Archangels (it's the feast of St. Micheal, Gabriel & Raphael) and then I have a full day of teaching (which, thank God, ends at 4pm!). and then in the evening I have a free dinner to go to!

On Staurday I have been invited to a retreat for married couples which I'd like to go to with Chris, but it is 2hours away by train and will take up the whole day...and I'm not sure I can cope with the stress! (plus I havent done a minute of studying all week, and I really should kinda do something!). Plus, Chris will have to leave his rowing training a few hours early if he's going to make this start of the retreat...


anyway! I am sure noone is interested in my ramblings of busy-ness!

God Bless!

Say a prayer for my bike!

-x-