Two Schedules

Tonight I'm just going to publish two daily schedules from my past. I don't have the time or energy to discuss my motive at the moment - hopefully it will be made clearer as future posts discuss similar topics.

The first is from the summer of 1997, when I was 14. This is a weekday schedule.

7:00 Wake up
7:00 - 8:00 Do reading assignment (O.R.), with T.V on in the background.
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast. Play video games.
9:00 - 10:00 Practice violin.
10:00 - 12:00 Go to the gym.
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch.
1:00 - 2:00 Study Latin.
2:00 - 5:00 Read.
5:00 - 6:00 Video games.
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner with family.
7:00 - 8:00 Practice violin.
8:00 - 9:00 Write.
9:00 - 11:00 Video games.
11:00 Sleep

I played a lot of video games, watched a lot of t.v., learned latin, read tons, got plenty of exercise and got really good at the violin in a short period of time. Not a bad use of my time. I usually spent the weekends with friends, who were doing other things during the week, or who went to camp during large portions of it. This wasn't all that I did this summer, but it was a huge chunk of it. I took a few trips, including one to San Francisco to stay with my brother for a little while.

Schedule 2. This one changed up a lot but was mostly consistent. This was during 2004 - 2005, when I was 21 and 22 and teaching in China.

6:00 Wake up.
6:00 - 6:20 Stretching, basic exercises, getting dressed.
6:20 - 6:30 Going to the cafeteria to grab breakfast.
6:30 - 8:00 Eat breakfast, have tea, mess around on the internet, play video games.
8:00 - 9:30 First class of the day.
9:30 - 10:30 Break in the foreign teachers' lounge. Chat with other teachers, read, use internet, plan lessons.
10:30 - 12:00 Second class.
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch in teachers' cafeteria.
12:30 - 2:30 Siesta - reading and napping.
2:30 - 4:00 Third class.
4:00 - 5:00 Running on the track, shower, sometimes ping pong.
5:00 - 6:00 Relaxing. Sometimes, but not often enough, studying Chinese.
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner in the restaurants down the street with other teachers
7:00 - 10:00 Any combination of different things - watching movies with other teachers, watching movies alone, messing around on the internet, video games, reading, writing.

I was not very "productive" on this schedule, but I remember feeling very rooted and settled and, when I allowed it to blossom, a very strong push to be deeply creative.

That will be all for tonight. Take care, all.