Meme, Questions 15 & 16
Question #15: Timeline of your day
My workdays have three different starting times (8:30, 9:30, or 11:30) depending on the day of the week, not counting the Sunday afternoon overtime shifts that crop up about ten times a year. So my timeline varies a lot.
But let's imagine that it's a Wednesday, I went to bed on time last night (ha ha ha), and it's a more or less typical day.
6:00 - woken up by my sunrise alarm clock. It is awesome.
6:10 - actually move. Grab my phone from where it has been charging overnight, check email and twitter. Kudos emails usually come out right around six, at least in my time zone, so the chime of incoming email often closely coincides with my alarm going off. Possibly also play Candy Crush for a little while.
6:30 - pull my journal out of the nightstand drawer and dash off a page or so about the previous day and what's up next.
6:55 - shower.
7:15 - breakfast and checking tumblr on my laptop.
7:40 - brush teeth, put contacts in, get dressed.
7:55 - leave to catch the bus.
8:10 - catch second bus downtown.
8:20 - arrive at work.
8:30 - workday starts. Check email, start fielding email reference questions.
9:00-11:00 - first "on desk" shift at work, probably at one of the in-person reference desks fielding questions from the public. Check my list of being-an-informed-person-who-also-likes-celebrity-baby-photos websites for the morning.
11-1:30 - "off desk" time to spend at my desk in a workroom, dealing with emails, email reference questions, and running around the library tending to my collection area.
1:30-4 - "on desk" again, this time probably answering phones in our reference call center. Give out the phone number to the local Social Security Office, various city, county, and state offices, and the correct spelling of the word "rhythm". May be able to read or write between phone calls if it's not too busy.
4-5 - "off desk" again. Probably not doing much of anything productive this time, unless something important has cropped up and I'm running around trying to get it sorted before five.
5:00 - go catch the bus!
5:35 - check the mail, move my car to the opposite side of the street for the night, then I'm home for the night.
6:00ish - dinner
6:30-11:00 - hanging out on my couch in my pajamas. This has a tendency to turn into me staring into my computer for four and a half hours, chatting with people, refreshing Tumblr, and playing Candy Crush while feeling bad about not getting any writing done. Lately I've gotten better at structuring this time into twenty-minute segments so that I get things done--writing, reading, cleaning around the apartment, whatever's necessary.
11:00 - bedtime!
Question #16: What's at the top of your bucket list?
Huh. I don't really have a bucket list.
I mean, on the one hand, I'm really fascinated by life and I want to know what next what next what next basically forever. I want to see my nieces and nephews (and kids of my own) grow up; I want to see how the world changes year after year. I want to read the next story and see the next movie, go to the next con and have the next slightly tipsy late-night talk. Preferably for the next seventy years or so.
On the other hand, with one thing and another (fuck cancer, let me just say) I had occasion a few years ago to think about what I would do if I wasn't going to get any of that stuff--if I knew that my time was quite limited, and I had to decide how to spend what was left. I realized I didn't care much about seeing particular new places or having special once-in-a-lifetime experiences of the kind you could plan in advance.
I decided that I would spend my time telling stories. That would be the thing I would regret, out of the set of things it's actually possible for me to do--I would regret not getting to tell the next story, and the one after that, and the one after that that I think you would really like. So I guess that's my bucket list right there: finish the next story.
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My workdays have three different starting times (8:30, 9:30, or 11:30) depending on the day of the week, not counting the Sunday afternoon overtime shifts that crop up about ten times a year. So my timeline varies a lot.
But let's imagine that it's a Wednesday, I went to bed on time last night (ha ha ha), and it's a more or less typical day.
6:00 - woken up by my sunrise alarm clock. It is awesome.
6:10 - actually move. Grab my phone from where it has been charging overnight, check email and twitter. Kudos emails usually come out right around six, at least in my time zone, so the chime of incoming email often closely coincides with my alarm going off. Possibly also play Candy Crush for a little while.
6:30 - pull my journal out of the nightstand drawer and dash off a page or so about the previous day and what's up next.
6:55 - shower.
7:15 - breakfast and checking tumblr on my laptop.
7:40 - brush teeth, put contacts in, get dressed.
7:55 - leave to catch the bus.
8:10 - catch second bus downtown.
8:20 - arrive at work.
8:30 - workday starts. Check email, start fielding email reference questions.
9:00-11:00 - first "on desk" shift at work, probably at one of the in-person reference desks fielding questions from the public. Check my list of being-an-informed-person-who-also-likes-celebrity-baby-photos websites for the morning.
11-1:30 - "off desk" time to spend at my desk in a workroom, dealing with emails, email reference questions, and running around the library tending to my collection area.
1:30-4 - "on desk" again, this time probably answering phones in our reference call center. Give out the phone number to the local Social Security Office, various city, county, and state offices, and the correct spelling of the word "rhythm". May be able to read or write between phone calls if it's not too busy.
4-5 - "off desk" again. Probably not doing much of anything productive this time, unless something important has cropped up and I'm running around trying to get it sorted before five.
5:00 - go catch the bus!
5:35 - check the mail, move my car to the opposite side of the street for the night, then I'm home for the night.
6:00ish - dinner
6:30-11:00 - hanging out on my couch in my pajamas. This has a tendency to turn into me staring into my computer for four and a half hours, chatting with people, refreshing Tumblr, and playing Candy Crush while feeling bad about not getting any writing done. Lately I've gotten better at structuring this time into twenty-minute segments so that I get things done--writing, reading, cleaning around the apartment, whatever's necessary.
11:00 - bedtime!
Question #16: What's at the top of your bucket list?
Huh. I don't really have a bucket list.
I mean, on the one hand, I'm really fascinated by life and I want to know what next what next what next basically forever. I want to see my nieces and nephews (and kids of my own) grow up; I want to see how the world changes year after year. I want to read the next story and see the next movie, go to the next con and have the next slightly tipsy late-night talk. Preferably for the next seventy years or so.
On the other hand, with one thing and another (fuck cancer, let me just say) I had occasion a few years ago to think about what I would do if I wasn't going to get any of that stuff--if I knew that my time was quite limited, and I had to decide how to spend what was left. I realized I didn't care much about seeing particular new places or having special once-in-a-lifetime experiences of the kind you could plan in advance.
I decided that I would spend my time telling stories. That would be the thing I would regret, out of the set of things it's actually possible for me to do--I would regret not getting to tell the next story, and the one after that, and the one after that that I think you would really like. So I guess that's my bucket list right there: finish the next story.
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