[10Spot] 093 - Routines
Aug. 29th, 2008 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
my_strappyshoes01 - Wake up. I haven't needed an alarm in years, usually my body just wakes up naturally on it's own around five or six in the morning. Since moving to Connecticut it's been pushed back to between seven or eight.
02 - Comfort. When I was seven my grandmother made me this quilt. When I was given it usually it ended up folded and placed on the chair in my room. Since moving out of the house it's been the first thing I tug up off the bed and wrap around me as I go to get my coffee.
03 - Coffee. It's usually not essential, but the smell of it brewing has some sort of familiar feeling to it.
04 - Get the mail. In LA it used to be at least two in the afternoon before mail service made it to my condo, but out here the mail is usually in the box by eight, nine on the weekends.
05 - Check voicemail. Probably the smartest thing I did moving back out here was start the habit of shutting my cell phone off at night. My clients might have different time zone issues, but I am not going to let them dictate my work schedule. It's odd though to not hear it ring at midnight with Sydney telling me there's been an explosion at some embassy and I have to report into the office in two hours.
06 - Check email. Unlike my phone, my laptop is usually on at all hours of the day. It is quiet though and won't wake me up trying to get my attention.
07 - Make a plan for the day. Once I've gotten my messages and emails, usually there is something to do. Either schedule a conference call, or finish up something for a client, or just try to see about finding a new client. I'm not overly concerned with not having something to do, but I like to keep busy.
08 - Stop somewhere in the middle and grab something to eat.
09 - Check in on the family. It's not something I do everyday to the degree of a phone call to every single one of them, but I do at least send an email to at least one of them at some point during the day. Usually to my sister, or my dad.
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10 - Avoid calls from Sydney. It's horrible I know, but she's extremely persuasive, and there are just too many things still on my mind. I'm not sure how to explain to her that I'm not like her without making it sound like a bad thing. It'll sort itself out hopefully at some point. I mean I really don't want to open my door one day and find her on the other side of it, but I'm sure if it has to come to that, it will.
02 - Comfort. When I was seven my grandmother made me this quilt. When I was given it usually it ended up folded and placed on the chair in my room. Since moving out of the house it's been the first thing I tug up off the bed and wrap around me as I go to get my coffee.
03 - Coffee. It's usually not essential, but the smell of it brewing has some sort of familiar feeling to it.
04 - Get the mail. In LA it used to be at least two in the afternoon before mail service made it to my condo, but out here the mail is usually in the box by eight, nine on the weekends.
05 - Check voicemail. Probably the smartest thing I did moving back out here was start the habit of shutting my cell phone off at night. My clients might have different time zone issues, but I am not going to let them dictate my work schedule. It's odd though to not hear it ring at midnight with Sydney telling me there's been an explosion at some embassy and I have to report into the office in two hours.
06 - Check email. Unlike my phone, my laptop is usually on at all hours of the day. It is quiet though and won't wake me up trying to get my attention.
07 - Make a plan for the day. Once I've gotten my messages and emails, usually there is something to do. Either schedule a conference call, or finish up something for a client, or just try to see about finding a new client. I'm not overly concerned with not having something to do, but I like to keep busy.
08 - Stop somewhere in the middle and grab something to eat.
09 - Check in on the family. It's not something I do everyday to the degree of a phone call to every single one of them, but I do at least send an email to at least one of them at some point during the day. Usually to my sister, or my dad.
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10 - Avoid calls from Sydney. It's horrible I know, but she's extremely persuasive, and there are just too many things still on my mind. I'm not sure how to explain to her that I'm not like her without making it sound like a bad thing. It'll sort itself out hopefully at some point. I mean I really don't want to open my door one day and find her on the other side of it, but I'm sure if it has to come to that, it will.
