The traffic hasn't gotten any better since my last post. If anything, the consistency of its awfulness was putting me into a funk. After the first couple days on my job with so little traffic, perhaps my expectations were just out of whack. Then again, my coworkers were also telling me that the past few days had been particularly bad.
Regardless, my boyfriend made a suggestion that I have been trying and have found so far to be immensely successful. Like Tim Gunn says, I'm "making it work" with a few tweaks.
Every morning I had been waking up early, going to the gym, coming back home to get ready for work, and then heading into the office. I was getting up at 6:20am and getting into the office by 9am. Well, my boyfriend's suggestion was to go to work first thing in the morning and then head to the gym after work. Basically, I'd go in at 7:30am, and be able to leave at least an hour earlier than I was before. With the blessing of my boss, I tried it out a few days this week, and voila! it works!
I haven't been missing the traffic altogether. But the drive home for me has gone down from an average of 70 minutes to 25-30 minutes. Yay!
And with that extra time, I can do a little more work, spend a little more time at the gym, and take a little more time at home to chill and do other things I care about. It's a fantastic rearrangement. :-)
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