Right now I have committed myself to a professional project in a way that I have never before. I have certainly worked longer hours back in my corporate days (sometimes as many as 120 hours a week). Not only am I working on something “professional” it is turning into a real labor of love. I writing for two or three hours a day (plus equal amount of research). I have written a lot in my past (mostly in college), but this is different. Each time I finish a writing session I feel as if my brain has been rung out. It is as if the instant I finish I am grasping for oxygen, like I had been working under water.
This as effected me in an unexpected way. My personally is basically equal parts introvert and extrovert. I get energy from being alone as well as with people. After a long weekend on the road of work, where I have been talking to people non stop I need to hide in my room and decompress for a day or to recover. On the flip side if I spend to much time home alone I start to get moody and run down. What has been so interesting about this writing, be that it is not of a technical nature like my computer science thesis, is that it is taking all my extroverted energy. Even though I have not been around people, it is requiring period of decompression.

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