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Okay, since I did not do anything on the list for February except attend the concerts I'd planned on, what did I do with my time?
EDIT: You know what, I did forget another work-related thing. It wasn't billable, and it wasn't a lot of time, but I did spend a few hours on refreshing my familiarity with proofreader's marks and doing two editing tests for a prospective new client. So that was definitely a worthwhile side project, and I need to remember to credit myself for that.
Some time loss can be attributed to my continued struggles with my sleep schedule. I'm still dutifully setting my alarms to get me up by 9:30, and in fact I'm well-conditioned to wake up before them. However, I was generally getting to bed late enough that I'd have less than six hours of real sleep before I woke up, and I'd end up turning off the alarms and getting back into bed for another hour or two. That still shouldn't be a problem in theory, because 8 hours a day of rest or sleep is about right, but in practice I know that getting up that late in the morning tends to throw off my whole day and contribute to my failure to do anything productive. Well, I've got a five-day contract at KEXP coming up next week, so that'll force me to reset my schedule. I intended to start that reset today, but I had to stay up really late last night finishing up a work project for this morning, so I let that spoil my intention.
A friend of mine posted on Twitter yesterday, "Decided my electronic to-do list is where tasks go to die or get procrastinated to uselessness. Paper, or just doing it, from now on." The first part obviously describes my behavior over the past several months as well. I don't believe that physically writing to-do lists on paper would make a difference; I'm well able to put those aside and ignore them too. But the "just doing it" part is something I know I am capable of—really, despite the evidence to the contrary here, sometimes I do just set my mind and take care of things—and I need to make that exertion more often.
- I'm only billing 37 hours of work in the month, 21 in the first and 16 in the second (most of those being this past weekend).
- Oh I almost forgot, I did spend some time on Go Play NW stuff like updating the website.
- I'm back to doing my Wednesday afternoon intern work at KEXP, so that's about 4-5 hours a week.
- I had a dental cleaning and a checkup the following day (they had accidentally not scheduled enough time to do both at once). And I got my hair cut later.
- I had dinner with the Dowlers and Saccos at Tutta Bella last Tuesday—and then dinner at Tutta Bella again on Saturday before the Hotels concert, with my KEXP/music friends Ann and Rich, and Eric and Cheryl. (And it was totally worth going twice in a week.)
- Trivia every Tuesday night as usual, except last Tuesday as I just mentioned.
- And of course there are the aforementioned concerts, plus going out dancing at the Baltic Room.
EDIT: You know what, I did forget another work-related thing. It wasn't billable, and it wasn't a lot of time, but I did spend a few hours on refreshing my familiarity with proofreader's marks and doing two editing tests for a prospective new client. So that was definitely a worthwhile side project, and I need to remember to credit myself for that.
Some time loss can be attributed to my continued struggles with my sleep schedule. I'm still dutifully setting my alarms to get me up by 9:30, and in fact I'm well-conditioned to wake up before them. However, I was generally getting to bed late enough that I'd have less than six hours of real sleep before I woke up, and I'd end up turning off the alarms and getting back into bed for another hour or two. That still shouldn't be a problem in theory, because 8 hours a day of rest or sleep is about right, but in practice I know that getting up that late in the morning tends to throw off my whole day and contribute to my failure to do anything productive. Well, I've got a five-day contract at KEXP coming up next week, so that'll force me to reset my schedule. I intended to start that reset today, but I had to stay up really late last night finishing up a work project for this morning, so I let that spoil my intention.
A friend of mine posted on Twitter yesterday, "Decided my electronic to-do list is where tasks go to die or get procrastinated to uselessness. Paper, or just doing it, from now on." The first part obviously describes my behavior over the past several months as well. I don't believe that physically writing to-do lists on paper would make a difference; I'm well able to put those aside and ignore them too. But the "just doing it" part is something I know I am capable of—really, despite the evidence to the contrary here, sometimes I do just set my mind and take care of things—and I need to make that exertion more often.
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