One thing I hadn't anticipated prior to this summer is the amount of difficulty I would have balancing my social life with the demands from work. Somehow, a couple of weeks into my internship, I started having many more things to fill up my evenings. After the first time I stayed at work until 8pm, completely missing happy hour with my intern friend and disappointing her in the process, I learned to not make any concrete plans with anyone and preface all arrangements with "I'm not sure when exactly I'll be getting off work..."
It seems like on most days, I either stay at work until around 7 or I have plans afterwards. Having plans is really nothing to complain about and I'm happy that I do, but I can't help but get kind of cranky when I don't have enough time for myself. I had been looking forward to getting home before 8pm yesterday, but then a friend who'd had a bad weekend asked to hang out, so I obliged. In general, though, it's tough to decide - doing whatever social activity someone is proposing vs. going home and making yummy food alone. Both things make me happy, but I guess I've been doing a lot of the former and not enough of the latter.
Today, I got off at 6:30 and rushed home to make myself some pasta with turkey meatballs and salad and just generally enjoy life.
In general, however, I'm curious about how things will go when I graduate and get a full-time job. It's great that I've got one more year of taking about 14 hours of classes and having lots of time to devote to my friends, but I'm pretty worried about what will happen afterwards. I hope I won't have to continue to be late to lunch with friends because of meetings that run late/have to cancel post-work plans/flake on people because I'm too tired..
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