Monday, January 23, 2006
(10:57 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
World Enough and Time
My idealized picture of what my schedule could be like if I had enough money that I didn't have to work:- Wake up whenever I wake up (probably 9 at the latest); eat breakfast, make coffee, read my e-mail
- Whenever I'm done with that up until noon: language work, either moving forward with new languages (to which there is an upper limit) or solidifying previous ones
- Noon through 1 or 2: eat lunch, tidy up around the house, write a blog post
- 2 to 7: reading or writing, depending on what's necessary
- 7 to 9: eat dinner, watch some TV (24, House, etc.)
- 9 to bed time: more reading, or else go out
Here's how it might really work out:
- Wake up around 9 or 10
- Through noon: dick around on the Internet
- Noon - 2pm: freak out that it's already noon, eat lunch and do dishes in an effort to "have done something," stress out over a bad e-mail chess move
- 2pm - 5 pm: work my way through some foreign-language reading or exercises, checking my e-mail or comments excessively, hoping to at least be away from the computer by the time Hayley comes home
- 5pm or so: Hayley comes home, finding me at the computer
- 5pm to 9pm: watch, in turn, The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, and whatever shows are on Fox that night; some chance of a half-hearted attempt at work if American Idol or Nanny 911 is on
- 9pm to 10pm: read on the couch, pretty solidly
- 10pm to 11pm: read on the couch while struggling, with limited success, to stay awake
- 11pm: give up and go to bed, promise self that I'll get up earlier tomorrow and turn over a new leaf
- 7am: begin cycle of pressing snooze repeatedly until 8:45
