7:30: The alarm goes off and James gets his day started. I usually loll around in bed, listening to NPR and snoozing.
8:00: I get out of bed and jump into my gym clothes. It's off to the gym to do the bare minimum of exercise to keep me from turning into Jabba the Hut. It's not working all that well.
9:00: Back home. I go downstairs and check my email, check the job boards, apply to jobs and boot up my work computer to see what's going on there.
10:00: People's Court comes on. I turn on the TV and get breakfast. Usually coffee and a bagel. Yum! Lots and lots of Free Cell and Blast Billiards fill my time.
11:00: If it's a Law and Order CI that I haven't seen 200 times, I might watch that, if I have errands to run I go upstairs to shower and such.
12:00: Either I'm out at the grocery store, the post office or any other reason to leave the house. If I'm not leaving the house, then I watch assorted inferior court shows and continue to play on the computer. Most of the afternoon continues in this fashion.
4:00: Oprah or Judge Judy, it just depends on which one looks better.
5:00: Dr. Phil, or Dragnet and Adam 12. I usually start dinner around this time. Things I've been known to cook:
Jambalaya from a Box
Columbian Snapper, from scratch
Baked chicken and rice
Pork chops, sweet potatoes and rice
Red Beans and Rice with sausage
Japanese Curry
Meat in mojo with black beans and rice
Steak and baked potatoes
Meatloaf
Spaghetti and meatballs
Lasagne
Sound good? Meh.
6:15: James comes home and we eat dinner. I change things up a bit and watch television for the rest of the evening.
God, I hope I get a job soon.
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1 comment:
As somebody who's not worked in a while, I look at your schedule and wish I had tried to organize my days from the start as you have, if only around crummy TeeVee (I used to love all the Law and Order shows, especially SVU but The Wire ruined them for me).
It seems that few people have the discipline or inclination to keep to a regular schedule without having some external demands on them. I certainly don't, and I have a number of friends in a similar position to mine who share my extremely irregular habits. Since the world runs on regular schedules, allowing oneself to drift into such irregularities isn't a good thing, even if you don't need a job.
A long winded way of saying good for you for keeping your life on track. A surplus of leisure is definitely one of those things that you should beware of wanting, lest you get it.
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