*nog* I didn't get as far as adding it up but had a feeling it was probably more than there are hours in the day.
I don't have 4 hours of classes at Trinity most days; I do sometimes have up to 10 hours of rehearsal and performance, but not often.
I'm thinking of re-instating a "pressed for time" default reading list on LJ. The biggest time-saving there would be that there wouldn't be any rss feeds on it, which are interesting and I do want to keep most of them but seldom need to be read right away.
Some of the blog-writing dovetails nicely with the Trinty commitments and it would help me to do more of it. I'm wondering about trying to do some on the train in the mornings and evenings; I usually get a seat and I'm already carrying paper. If I were to write a rough outline while travelling then the actual typing part wouldn't take long at all. The question there is whether my elbow will suffer from all the writing; I want to look into whether it's possible to get a splint for the base of my fourth finger on my right hand, as that joint is particularly unstable and seems to exacerbate things a lot.
Interesting side-projects definitely need to be kept in perspective, but I've just let go of a load of them (got rid of b0rkened spinning wheel, getting rid of loom and raw fleece, no longer have a garden) and I'd like to take some time to adapt to that before I get rid of any more.
I'd really like outside-time to happen daily if it can because I do find it very restorative. It doesn't necessarily have to be an hour, though. When the weather is warmer I can combine it with eating my lunch.
Doing all clothes for a week probably won't work because I don't always know at the start of the week what my academic schedule will be and hence whether I'll need things like concert dress, so even if I batch my clothes at the beginning of the week I still need to check my schedule each night for the next day's clothing requirements. I've previously thought about having 7 outfits and just assigning one to each weekday, which would work well as a default option but might get a bit boring. It also doesn't allow me to adapt much to the weather, which is annoying, but then I usually just throw on a sweater if it's cold or remove a layer if it's hot and the summer clothes would be different than the winter clothes anyway... hmm. Worth thinking about this more, I think.
For now I'm going to stick to the baseline list for a while and try to get it firmly established, see what the state of my life is after a week or so and then prioritise things from the 'ideal' list and begin adding them.
I suspect that some of the first things to add will be making more of my own food (emergency baseline allows me to buy it ready-made as long as it has protein and veg but this is rather unsustainable financially) and getting some daily tidying in.
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Date: 2008-02-01 11:40 am (UTC)I don't have 4 hours of classes at Trinity most days; I do sometimes have up to 10 hours of rehearsal and performance, but not often.
I'm thinking of re-instating a "pressed for time" default reading list on LJ. The biggest time-saving there would be that there wouldn't be any rss feeds on it, which are interesting and I do want to keep most of them but seldom need to be read right away.
Some of the blog-writing dovetails nicely with the Trinty commitments and it would help me to do more of it. I'm wondering about trying to do some on the train in the mornings and evenings; I usually get a seat and I'm already carrying paper. If I were to write a rough outline while travelling then the actual typing part wouldn't take long at all. The question there is whether my elbow will suffer from all the writing; I want to look into whether it's possible to get a splint for the base of my fourth finger on my right hand, as that joint is particularly unstable and seems to exacerbate things a lot.
Interesting side-projects definitely need to be kept in perspective, but I've just let go of a load of them (got rid of b0rkened spinning wheel, getting rid of loom and raw fleece, no longer have a garden) and I'd like to take some time to adapt to that before I get rid of any more.
I'd really like outside-time to happen daily if it can because I do find it very restorative. It doesn't necessarily have to be an hour, though. When the weather is warmer I can combine it with eating my lunch.
Doing all clothes for a week probably won't work because I don't always know at the start of the week what my academic schedule will be and hence whether I'll need things like concert dress, so even if I batch my clothes at the beginning of the week I still need to check my schedule each night for the next day's clothing requirements. I've previously thought about having 7 outfits and just assigning one to each weekday, which would work well as a default option but might get a bit boring. It also doesn't allow me to adapt much to the weather, which is annoying, but then I usually just throw on a sweater if it's cold or remove a layer if it's hot and the summer clothes would be different than the winter clothes anyway... hmm. Worth thinking about this more, I think.
For now I'm going to stick to the baseline list for a while and try to get it firmly established, see what the state of my life is after a week or so and then prioritise things from the 'ideal' list and begin adding them.
I suspect that some of the first things to add will be making more of my own food (emergency baseline allows me to buy it ready-made as long as it has protein and veg but this is rather unsustainable financially) and getting some daily tidying in.