Multitasking

One of my persistent stressors over the last year and (almost) a half has been keeping up with the house on top of work and school. However, I finally figured out a way to do housework and homework at the same time - I think this semester I'll have the cleanest kitchen I've had since I started grad school. I'm not sure why it took me this long to figure it out. I've started listening to the class lectures with my laptop and speakers sitting on the chest freezer in the dining room - which is on the other side of the kitchen passthrough. Although, now that I think about it, the freezer has only lived there since mid-November. That part of the setup wouldn't have worked earlier. At any rate, I'm happy that I can putter around in the kitchen without feeling guilty that I'm not doing schoolwork, 'cause I am. Now I just need to work on doing schoolwork while cleaning the rest of the house...