my schedule this week

6:30 a.m. - hear clock radio go off

7:00 a.m. - wake up, check the clock

7:30 a.m. -8:00 a.m. - get up, get dressed, take dogs out, feed dogs, put on make-up, take pills, make breakfast (whole-grain bread and peanut butter), go to work

8 a.m. - 12 noon - work - getting ready for fall (already!) and trying to manage hyper grad director who wants to do a bunch of stuff I'm not totally up to speed with because I can't keep him on one subject long enough to get there, so I just do it in bits and pieces. Yes, it would be more efficient if I had the overall picture, but he does things without telling me and then I have to back him up and either fuss at him or tell him there's an easier way to do it, and I get 30 seconds to do that before he gets side-tracked by something else

12 noon - 1 p.m. - let the dogs out, eat lunch (cottage cheese and fruit), read Grant's Memoirs.

1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - work - more of the same, only usually also including my other boss, who will give me something and say "there's no hurry with that" and then ask 2 hours later "Do you have that thing done yet?"

4:30p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - cat-sitting for two older cranky cats and one adorable and fun not-quite-one-year-old cat

5:30 - 6:00 p.m. - let dogs out, snuggle Timber

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. - feed dogs, eat dinner (chicken breast and veggies), read old cookbooks

7:00 - 8:00 p.m. - take dogs out, take ms I'm editing out - and boy do I have fun with that red pen! Even if I am just correcting "threw" for "through" and "their" for "there" and pointing out that he needs to put dates in numbers (1934, not nineteen hundred and thirty four), and capitalize Depression (as in Great Depression) and Dad when it's used as a proper name but not when it's used as "my dad." I'm not correcting sentence structure, narrative flow, or anything like that (unless it's a really gross grammatical mistake, like "they was" instead of "they were"), but those pages are pretty red. Guess I'm just sadistic at heart.

8:00-9:00 p.m. - listen to Ken Burns' Civil War and knit baby clothes

9:00 - 10:00 p.m. - play Ragnarok (single-player version) and eat 2 squares Dove dark chocolate

10:00 - 11:00 p.m. - eat a snack (raisins), read Christopher Tolkien's study of his father's composition of LOTR

11:00 - let dogs out, get ready for bed

11:30 - bed