Burnt

It occurs to me at this point that using one-word titles for all of my blog posts will inevitably lead to duplicate post titles... a phenomenon I've managed to avoid thus far. Nonetheless, this is the perfect word for how I feel right now.

The past few weeks have been... difficult at best. Activism, girlfriend, promotion, x-girlfriend, raise, more responsibility, more activism, two (pro-bono) websites for two different family members, late-night meetings and little or no sleep. Hell, I haven't made dinner (save for one token evening) for over a month!

I was doing alright though. Sure dinner was kinda expensive to swing, but I was getting it done -- until this week. Ever since I've taken over the all of the office networking stuff I've felt completely overrun. It's too much. Not only that, but I honestly don't know what I'm doing in many cases. Often I find that I've setup a whole system of networking that "just works" but not completely right because no one ever showed me how to do it the Right Way. Programs I installed are spewing packets to places I know they shouldn't and things as important as DNS just don't seem to plug into the world right... ever.

It's starting to really wear me down.