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jenettWelcome to this week's salon post. I get us started with a couple of questions, but feel free to bring up totally different things if you'd rather.
(This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.)
Topics of the week:
Wow, I'm glad it's Friday. Too much tired in the end of my week.
I sent out my fortnightly newsletter this Wednesday and one of the things I linked to was a site collecting brief interviews with people's morning routines, um, few of which remotely resemble mine, but which are interesting to peer at.
So I'm curious what yours are, and whether it's a thing you like, or a thing that is 'doing this because it's necessary'. And if you're so inclined, what your ideal might be. (I'll do my own in a comment.)
Recent things I've been doing:
Currently up to Trial of a Timelord in my Doctor Who rewatch, and reading a book about the Black Death, Return of the Black Death by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan, which argues that the Black Death was a viral infection (more similar to Ebola) than rat/flea Bubonic Plague.
I'm only a couple of chapters in, so still contemplating the argument, but there's a bunch of interesting data and quotes from writers at the time. (Some of which I've read before, because I am that kind of person, but some of which are new to me.)
I am also contemplating what I want to offer and request in the Worldbuilding Exchange, a fanfic exchange focusing on (shock!) worldbuilding. I had a lot of fun writing for it last year (Pseudonyms are Expected, a Leverage thing about an email list) (commentary here), and I liked a lot of other things people wrote too.
House rules:
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.
* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
(This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.)
Topics of the week:
Wow, I'm glad it's Friday. Too much tired in the end of my week.
I sent out my fortnightly newsletter this Wednesday and one of the things I linked to was a site collecting brief interviews with people's morning routines, um, few of which remotely resemble mine, but which are interesting to peer at.
So I'm curious what yours are, and whether it's a thing you like, or a thing that is 'doing this because it's necessary'. And if you're so inclined, what your ideal might be. (I'll do my own in a comment.)
Recent things I've been doing:
Currently up to Trial of a Timelord in my Doctor Who rewatch, and reading a book about the Black Death, Return of the Black Death by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan, which argues that the Black Death was a viral infection (more similar to Ebola) than rat/flea Bubonic Plague.
I'm only a couple of chapters in, so still contemplating the argument, but there's a bunch of interesting data and quotes from writers at the time. (Some of which I've read before, because I am that kind of person, but some of which are new to me.)
I am also contemplating what I want to offer and request in the Worldbuilding Exchange, a fanfic exchange focusing on (shock!) worldbuilding. I had a lot of fun writing for it last year (Pseudonyms are Expected, a Leverage thing about an email list) (commentary here), and I liked a lot of other things people wrote too.
House rules:
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.
* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
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Date: 2018-01-20 10:17 pm (UTC)On good brain days (when brain squirrels are non-vicious and exhaustion gnomes are non-immense): Wake up at first alarm at 5:30, turn on happy light box of happiness, and mess around on my phone while looking in the direction of said light until 6:30.
On mediocre brain days: Hit snooze once or twice after the 5:30 alarm, but manage to start light-and-phone routine by 6am, lasting until ~6:30.
On bad days: Hit snooze repeatedly after the 5:30am alarm, manage to struggle out of bed after convincing myself not to call in sick around 6:35-6:40.
Once I'm up, the routine always looks the same-- turn on the heat lamp for the 1 hermit crab in isolation in our bedroom, then wander to the living room and turn on the overhead light for the tank with the other 4 hermit crabs. Feed the cats their morning kibble, then put together my soda-and-lunch for the day (usually two cans of cherry coke, an apple, and a microwave pasta thing, unless I managed to put together some leftovers the night before). Then it's back to the bedroom to take my meds for anxiety and aquadynia, brush my teeth, and get dressed. Give partner #1 (who I share a room with) his goodbye hug/kiss, then go to partner #2's room and give him his goodbye hug/kiss. Coat on, backpack on, keys and phone grabbed, out the door.
In order to make my bus, the car should be driving between 6:50-6:53 (I drive to a nearby park-and-ride, then catch the bus for the majority of my commute, because I work at the top of a large hill with very limited-- and expensive-- parking). I've made it by leaving a minute or two later than that, but it's dicey, and the next bus isn't for another ~20 minutes, which means skipping most of my lunch to make up the time if I get in late and want to leave at my normal time. Drive drive drive, and hop on the bus when it shows up at 7:10. Ride the bus until it gets me to work around 7:40, get off at the stop that lets me walk ~1300 steps to work (rather than <1000), and plop down at my desk (with cherry coke #1) at 7:45.
Morning routine success!