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flexagonI really want to settle into my life again, and that means figuring out what "normal" means now. What is a normal week? What is a normal morning? (Believe it or not, I've been fantasizing lately about having a really stable morning schedule).
I was all proud of myself this last weekend for not oversleeping like crazy, but then I was struck down by the plague and essentially slept away 1.5 days. Pride goeth before a cold. Now, I'm taking a vacation day to work on a take-home algorithm exam. It's kind of cool -- it's not every day I get to stay home and do brainteasers all day -- but only kind of, because it's stressful (my solutions probably aren't optimal), and I feel guilty for missing so much work this week, between the algorithms and the plague. Not to mention, this is really not the normal week I've been looking for.
Help make my daydreams a reality... what works for you in terms of having a morning schedule? Do you feel you have this down, or are your mornings a bit random, characterized perhaps by disappearing globs of time that can't be accounted for? Do you move at your normal speed, or do you have to account for a "not awake yet" pace of doing things? Do you have it down to a routine, or are some mornings totally different from others because you have stuff to do?
I hate to admit it, but I think I took a turn in the wrong direction about 3 years ago when I started using my computer for a quick email/LJ/weather check in the mornings. It's not necessarily the most time-consuming part of my routine, but now that I have a clock in the shower it's the only place time can unexpectedly disappear.
I was all proud of myself this last weekend for not oversleeping like crazy, but then I was struck down by the plague and essentially slept away 1.5 days. Pride goeth before a cold. Now, I'm taking a vacation day to work on a take-home algorithm exam. It's kind of cool -- it's not every day I get to stay home and do brainteasers all day -- but only kind of, because it's stressful (my solutions probably aren't optimal), and I feel guilty for missing so much work this week, between the algorithms and the plague. Not to mention, this is really not the normal week I've been looking for.
Help make my daydreams a reality... what works for you in terms of having a morning schedule? Do you feel you have this down, or are your mornings a bit random, characterized perhaps by disappearing globs of time that can't be accounted for? Do you move at your normal speed, or do you have to account for a "not awake yet" pace of doing things? Do you have it down to a routine, or are some mornings totally different from others because you have stuff to do?
I hate to admit it, but I think I took a turn in the wrong direction about 3 years ago when I started using my computer for a quick email/LJ/weather check in the mornings. It's not necessarily the most time-consuming part of my routine, but now that I have a clock in the shower it's the only place time can unexpectedly disappear.
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Date: 2008-04-11 02:19 pm (UTC)Wow, look at all these people with schedules! I can only run a morning schedule for a week or so before the whole thing falls apart. I blame it on other people—mainly the spouse and children—but I wasn't all that great at morning before they were around.
At this point I do have something of a routine. I get up, { lie in bed | joke around with the kids | start a load of laundry | etc } for 10–20 minutes, shower and dress while the rest of the family eats a sugar- and carb-heavy breakfast (usually oatmeal or cold cereal), grab something quick to eat, collect hugs and kisses, then leave for work. This takes around 90 minutes. And invariably it only happens 2 or 3 days each week. I'd prefer to have a more stable routine, but I've learned to live with it, I guess.