Divisions and Precisions

A Day in the Life, Revisited

Once upon a time, I wrote a journal entry detailing a typical day for me.

Things have changed since then. Quite a lot. That was two and a half years ago, after all. So without further adieu, a typical Lisa day, April 2002 edition. At least until my schedule changes next week.

7:00 am -- Alarm goes off. As soon as the first beep sounds, Pooka leaps up to the head of the bed and starts meowing to be petted. Hit snooze. Scritch cat while still asleep.

7:07 am to 7:28 am -- I get up, depending on how many times I hit snooze. Pet the cat some more.

7:30 am -- Take shower, get dressed, the usual stuff.

8:00 am to 8:30 am -- Sometime in there, gather up things and head out the door.

9:00 am -- At the latest, sitting down at Starbucks with my laptop and breakfast. My favorites right now are the chai and honey bran muffins. I've been trying to write for at least an hour everyday, and so far this has been the best time and the best place to do so.

10:00 am -- Pack everything up and head to work.

10:30 am -- Turn on phone. I'm still working for the same company I worked for back in September '99, but now instead of a receptionist, I'm a product support rep. I support an accounting program, and I have learned far more about accounting than I ever wanted to. In between calls (and *shhh* during the long pointless ones), I read email and a few journals.

2:00 pm -- Lunch, and I really do eat lunch at lunch now. I've been eating out too much lately though.

3:00 pm -- Back to work. Sometimes the calls are entertaining, sometimes the calls are irritating, sometimes they're fascinating in that "I really dig problem solving" way. And sometimes they just suck and I pray for death so the call will end.

7:30 pm -- Quitting time! The last hour and a half or so of my shift is normally very very VERY quiet, so I spend a lot of time goofing around, or if I get ambitious, I do a few critiques or poke at something I'm writing. I don't get ambitious often.

8:00 pm -- Home sweet home! I love my evenings. Unless it's a Thursday, I'm usually home, hanging out with Pooka and goofing around with whoever's online. Sometimes I play EverQuest, which has become my guiltiest of guilty pleasures of late -- well, second to E! True Hollywood Story and endless reruns of "Law and Order".

11:00 pm -- Bed. No really. Don't laugh. Sometimes I stretch it to midnight, but not usually.

My life has been so stable of late. I know I shouldn't jinx it by saying that, but it's true, and I love it. I don't think I would trade any of my wild and woolly days (which, admittedly, were pretty tame by most people's standards) for any of my days now.

Posted by Lisa at April 9, 2002 05:29 PM