I read some blogs and listen to podcasts about time and how to use your time and all of that stuff. There’s a trend on them towards time-tracking, and I’d been thinking about doing it, and decided this was the week.

A few caveats, this is not a “typical” week as it’s the end of the semester at Wash U, but one thing the podcasts and blogs say about time-tracking is that there is no “typical” week, all weeks have different things going on. You may or may not be interested in reading this, but I think it is interesting to share! I’m going to share how my days went on Monday and Tuesday of this week:

Monday:

5:15 AM Wake up, lie in bed. Scroll phone, reading news and various things. At one point there was a huge storm with hail and I got up to go look outside. I fell back asleep for a bit around 6:30-6:45 AM

8:00 AM Wake up for real, make coffee, feed cats, eat breakfast

8:30 AM Shower, do more emailing, drink more coffee, get ready to go to work.

9:20 AM Leave for Wash U, teach a lesson, watch juries.

11:45 AM Move car to garage at Wash U and meet Louie to walk home, we were worried about more hail coming with the upcoming predicted storms.

12:00 PM Start making lunch, texting with students, chat with Louie. At some point the tornado warning sirens went off so we went to the basement, loaded up the news to see what was going on. This took longer than it should have. Then we returned upstairs to eat lunch and continue watching the news.

1:00 PM Clean up lunch, wipe down bathroom surfaces

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Teach

2:30 – 2:45 PM Do some bill paying and check deposits

2:45 to 3:15 PM Teach

3:15 to 4 PM Mess around on computer online: research Japan trip, text people

4 to 4:30 PM Read a book

4:30 to 6:45 PM Teach

6:45 to 7:30 PM sit with Louie and watch the news/weather

7:30 to 8:45 PM Make dinner, eat, chat, clean up

8:45 to 9:45 PM Watch an episode of Our Friends and Neighbors with Louie

9:45 PM Get ready for bed

10:00 – 11:00 PM Read in Bed

Tuesday:

7:30 AM Wake up, lie in bed for a bit

8:15 AM Breakfast, coffee, feed cats, etc.

8:30 to 9 AM Work on recital program on computer for weekend’s Studio recital

9:00 to 9:30 AM Research Japan Trip, buy some train tickets

9:30 to 10:00 AM Workout

10 to 10:45 AM Shower, drink more coffee, emailing, get ready

10:45 AM Walk to get car at garage at Wash U

11:00 AM to 1:30 PM Drive to meet a friend for lunch, eat lunch, chat, leave

1:30 PM Call my sister Leslie, pick up groceries, drive home

2:15 PM Unload car and put away groceries

2:30 PM Read

3:15 to 6:15 PM Teach

6:15 to 6:45 PM Read while Louie practices guitar

6:45 PM Leave for a jazz show at the Sheldon, meet friends there, chat

7:30 to 9:30 PM Show

9:30 PM Drive to Black Mountain (short drive), order food and drinks, chat with Louie and a friend

10:45 PM Home, get ready for bed

11:00 PM In bed, reading. Finish book (Kate Atkinson’s Case Histories) and lights out around 12:15 AM, probably too late!

Takeaways so far: I have had a lot of time to read, woo hoo! And I probably spend too much time lying in bed first thing in the morning, but I really enjoy not getting out of bed right away when I can. I’ll report back more in a few more days. And yes, Morocco trip, I know, I know. Soon I’ll need to write about Japan, so I’d better finish!