This is a place to sketch out a day-in-the-life of a AM users. Activities should be compared to Goals – one should ask oneself how well one's strategies are suited to attaining ones goals. This relationship should be re-evaluated fairly frequently, and either the activities and strategies should be changed, or the statement of the goals adjusted.

jcorneli

daily schedule during the week

Up at sunup or thereabouts : If I'm up by 8:30 I get to listen to "evocation a la chapelle sixtine" by Franz Liszt, which is run by cron every morning at 8:30. I also like to listen to the birds singing. I like to eat some subset of: fried eggs, hashbrowns, pancakes, and leftover vegetables, and also certainly to drink some tea with my breakfast.

9 : I am expected at the library; I may buy some fruit to eat on the way.

12 : lunch

1 : back to the library

6 : dinner; evening officially begins

This schedule is infrequently interupted by tutoring or lunch appointments, etc., but I hope to keep it more fixed in future months. Unbilled interjections will of course be made up for.

When I am at the library, I am to work on these tasks:

scholium system : coding, writing

FEM : system development, editing

HDM parser : get through APM-Xi

GCIDE : Translate the GCIDE to Unicode/LaTeX.

This time is being billed to Hyperreal Enterprises, Ltd., at the rate of $0.00 / hr. In case the arithmetic isn't transparent, this means a 40 hour a week, hands-on-the-keyboard, commitment to software development.

(Note: Hyperreal Enterprises is currently a legal fiction, but this may all change at some point.)

Evening time

professional & personal correspondence : CVS updates, wiki, newsgroups, email, telephony, letter-writing. (Note: all the time I spend on the wiki, FEM conversations, Grant planning, reading books, etc., I consider to be "unbilled".)

miscellaneous coding : improve the way I use, and patch if warranted -- Emacs, XDarwin, fluidsynth, ratpoison, Noosphere, NUT, etc.

live and in person :

Tuesday : weekly discussion of "alternative education"

Thursday : Go night at the Seward

Weekend activities

Note that the weekend officially begins on Thursday, not Friday, and the week officially begins on Monday, not Sunday. In fact, officially, there is no "week end", there is only a "strong front", which I present to you now:

Work at a local group home for mentally ill or developmentally disabled adults :

My job is to arrive, sleep, dispense medications, help the (high functioning) residents begin their day. Pretty easy job.

Thursday night / Friday morning : 10 PM--9 AM

Friday night / Saturday morning : 10 PM--12 PM

Saturday night / Sunday morning : 12 AM--12 PM

Friday is a work day for me (though I may take it as a summing-up or other somewhat unstructured day; e.g. it might be a good day to spend at the math library marking up my copy of the FEM).

The rest of the time between Thursday night and Monday morning is not scheduled.

Miscellaneous unbilled hours

I was "supposed to" start going to more events at the University (like, seminars and talks and stuff). Maybe these things will get interjected into the Evening… if there's anything interesting, and I don't need the time for other volunteer activities.

Other job possibilities

I am considering working overnights at a local cafe. This seems like it would enhance my Zen, but I'm not sure. It would be compatible with my daily work, but might force me to sleep in the evenings. I assume, by default, that I would write better code after sleeping all night than after cooking and cleaning all night, but one can't be too sure. This job would be three nights a week or so, and perhaps it would be worth making the experiment to see how it affects my work.
I am also considering working a research or admin job at the local university (I don't know the details yet, but a couple jobs have been sketched out a little bit). This would pay something more, and the research job might provide good cross-training. However, less and less time appears in the budget. I might be able to fit an additional 15-20 hours a week or so on top of the activities already described, but without re-ordering things significantly, it seems very hard to fit in an additional 35-40 hours a week. I'm not going think any more about this until I know the details.

Discussion of jcorneli's activities

the way of the asteroid