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August 08, 2007

This Is Insane

This week I began trying to get into the schedule I'll be following for the school year. Or at least the fall semester. I want to get into the routine before things get urgent and I have to try to do everything at once. My ideal new schedule goes something like this:

7am -- Get up.
9am -- Leave house. Walk to school.
10am -- Arrive at office. (Yes, it's a long walk.)
Work/teach all day, leave around 5 to walk home.

Technically, that's only for half the days each week. The others will be days I have to drive in because I teach a class at 9:30am and I am NOT leaving my house at 8am to walk to school. (That gives me 1/2 hour prep time.)

This is what has actually transpired over the past two days:

Monday
7:20am -- Get up. (Close enough.)
Spend post-get up time doing all the things I need to do before I leave. AND dusting the cupboard to put the new dishes in that we got on Sunday because the old ones were in terrible shape. That took a while because it's got one of those open shelves with the vertical dowels to display your pretty plates. Those things are a bitch to dust.
Check and answer emails, print stuff I need to take with me, gather my things together.
11:00am -- Finally get my ass out the door. (Only two hours late.)
11:30am -- Stop at the Post Office to mail Maaike's envelope of random crap.
11:55am -- Continue walking to school.
12:05pm -- Run into Dave who's headed to Patty's (awesome Mexican restaurant/taco stand) for lunch. Make him buy me a taco. Meet everybody there because he's such a regular that they all love him.
12:30pm -- Arrive at my office. Settle in to get some serious work done.
2:00pm -- Run errands around campus for an hour.
3:00pm -- Settle in to do some more serious work.
5:10pm -- Leave for home.

Tuesday
7:15am -- Get up.
Morning ablutions
Answer emails, conduct online research, print out everything I need to take with me. (I have neither a printer nor an internet connection in my office. I like it that way. I get more done.)
Work on cover for my newest notebook. This involves splattering ink and watered-down gold acrylic paint on a piece of photo matting covered in brown silk shantung. Not particularly time consuming.
Talk to the student who is working on our yard about what needs to be done next. It's looking really lovely, by the way, he's working very hard.
Eat lunch because it's lunchtime (how did it get to be lunchtime!?!???)
12:45pm -- Leave for school.
1:15pm -- Stop at local bookstore for an impulse buyfrom their outside "really cheap books and stuff" table.
1:25pm -- Continue on to school.
1:45pm -- Arrive at my office. Settle in and get some serious work done.
5:05pm -- Leave for home.

Today
7:15am -- Get up.
Go to the grocery store while the coffee's brewing because I'm out of fruit for my breakfast shake.
Clean up the clutter so the house is ready for the cleaning lady.
Start a load of laundry.
Shower.
Write a blog entry.
It's now a quarter past 9.

Anyone else see the problem here? The "I'm supposed to get to school by 10am and so far I haven't managed to leave the house before then" problem?

I have no idea how I'm going to manage to get to my classes if this keeps up.

Posted by sally at August 8, 2007 09:17 AM

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