Maintaining that Work/Life Balance

I always thought that after I graduated college and didn't have constant reading to do anymore, I would have so much more free time.

I was wrong. Probably took the wrong kind of job if I want free time.

To be honest, this normally is not a huge issue for me. I'm not unhappy with spending a good amount of time planning for my job, as long as I feel like I'm being productive. However, over the past few nights, after my roommate and I have planned to go to the gym together 2 or 3 times and due to a conflict in her schedule or mine, we have not gone any of those times, its starting to get to me. I really like teaching ( I almost typed that I love it, but then I realized I don't know if our relationship is that strong yet...), but I don't understand how people do this and have spouses, kids, pets, time to go out on weeknights (like several of my 30ish colleagues still do).

Maybe I procrastinate more than others. Maybe its that I don't really love my textbooks so I create and find a lot of supplemental materials. Maybe its that I have 3 different classes I'm planning for, or maybe I'm just really bad at time management. Anyway, I'm not sure if this post truly has a point, except to say that I don't understand quite how other people do it. I really hope I figure that out sometime soon.