My brain just doesn’t switch off

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My brain just doesn’t switch off

Friday night and my brain won’t turn off. Look I can’t change it now so there’s no point in trying is there. I have so much to do but most of all I just need to rest. But I am doing so much cool stuff at the moment. I had a 3+ hour session on TDD today (thank you it was the absolute best). I then went on lunch really late as I had done other stuff that morning too. So I had lunch and then I had a coffee chat with a colleague and then I had the rest of my lunchbreak. Then he unfortunately reminded me (correctly) that I needed to do a ton of coding before our next meeting. So I had to do that. I was so tired. So I alternated it with building a coat hanger in our office. I am very good at building furniture. I am pretty amazing what can I say
So then there is so much to do on Monday as always
Maybe some day I’ll have a quiet day. Every day is fast and long and exciting. I really love my job. I took the time to write up my goals for Monday today but as we all know by now my brain doesn’t switch off
The plan for the weekend is to rest. I have been treating my seizures in a new way and it has made me really tired. I desperately need to rest. I plan to meditate most of the weekend. Maybe all weekend
  • Next week
  • I have to add a ton of controllers to my react hook form ticket on Monday
  • I need to add a change handler to my code
  • I need to add some validation with yup. My colleague explained it to me on a call. I forgot everything because my brain was so overwhelmed from controllers. But I have good links to the docs
  • I am so scared though lol
  • It’s okay I have lots of time
  • I have a ton of meetings 
  • I have new meetings for my new team 
  • Yep I am a part of a new team that is being founded
  • Yep yep you go girl
  • I need to continue reading the react docs at some point
  • I need to urgently type up some notes from a meeting with a VP
  • I need to tidy up my desk lol we are getting some organisers
  • I need to write up some accessibility docs I had to move it by a week to make time for TDD lol 
    A photo of a lake outside of Zurich in switzerland

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