my dissertation chair has inspired me..

 

ok, most of you know that, apart from all the 'fun stuff' i do, aka 'write, photograph, direct, act, lecture, teach, and muck about,' i am, in fact, a doctoral student.

 

meaning 'in school to get a doktorah, even though it's adaby and won't add a penny to my value as a person, but anyway.'

 

*anyway,* my very cool committee chair emailed me a while back, informing me that she was to read my newest prospectus proposal 'in the a.m., over my coffee.'

 

and so i thought, 'how cool is that!'

 

not that she DRINKS coffee, but that she has a time to just sit down, chill out, and read whatever it is she wants to.

 

and then i realised, 'THIS IS WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!!!'

 

(forsooth, don't say anything! i know you're gonna say my more basic flaws are 'judgementalism' and 'religion' and and and.. ;)

 

it's like, i work so hard, and on so many things that i sleep 2 hours a night and am working the other 21. (and one hour for business dinners,fast food, or chowing/scarfing chow whilst standing in the kitchen).

 

not healthy, i know.

 

at ANY rate, i've decided to start on a new time-management regimen thing. like planning down to the smallest detail.

 

i can see it now:

 

6 am wake up

7 am leave for work

8 am teach

10 am let the kids out early

11 am go to albertson's and buy string cheese

12 pm taxi over to diffenbaugh to teach

1 pm make some arbitrary assignment and promise to let the kids out early and end up taking entirely too long

2 pm still talking

3 pm let the kids out late

4 pm still in math class (learning, not teaching)

5 pm math

6 pm math

7 pm business dinner or dissertation meeting at barnes and noble

8 pm still blabbing

9 pm head home, work out for 1 hr

10 do some assorted homework, then have a nap

11 snoring

12 snoring

1 get up

2 still waking up and starting the coffee

3 have finished an article and a book chapter by now (having long abandoned the homework)

4 answered 13 of my 673 emails

5 get sleepy and pray for a nap

6 end up not having slept but prayed for one hour, then grumpily got up to have a shower and get ready to leave the house at 7 am!

sigh.. it seems as though nothing's changed, except having wasted the 5 minutes typing this grand schedule up!