Quick note to those who may be looking at this from a trackback: this post is probably not really a comment on the conversation you were reading. I mostly only include the trackback URLs so that people know when I’m linking to their stuff.
That said, I finished my new morning routine and started writing this post (which I started today). While this won’t usually be what I post about (nor will my posts usually be so long), I’ve decided that I need to start getting used to the sleep schedule of the rest of the world, and so I’ve got a new routine, and want to share it with the world!
NB on more typical posts: I still owe some posts about the last month or so of dear old Yale, chess in Oak Brook, as well as the obligatory “What am I doing with my life” post, math vs. business vs. law post, the post about the whole “identity crisis” brought on by going for law school to a university carrying an unhealthy obsession with cantabs of all things, and the Latin on my college diploma (Collegii Saybrugiensi, non Timothei Dwight).
NB on my previous efforts to force some discipline on my life. I’ve often been upset with some habit of mine or lack thereof (I would be more apathetic if I weren’t so lethargic). So I’ll start an exercise routine or something, expecting that this time I will finally buckle down and get into shape, only to find out that dis aliter visum. This time is different, though (the band’s going to make it), ’cause I’ve got two things going for me: 1) I did manage somehow to lose 25 pounds last semester (though graduation and Chicago have put on the last 5 of those), and 2) I really, really want to learn German this summer.
No more notes. Onto my routine. I looked up last year’s class schedule for HLS and found out that it’s much easier than I thought. It still seemed like a good idea, though to be ready for 8:30.
- Went to bed early last night (read two chapters of V for Vendetta Book 1, comments some other time).
- Woke up at 7:00. Now, this is where most of you who know me start wondering if somebody else got a hold of the username and password for my WordPress account, or if I happen to be travelling in a different time zone and decided not to tell anybody. I assure you, ’tis I. Nobody pulled a Jon on me (at least not on this post).
- Brushed my teeth, got dressed for a walk, saw a dead raccoon on the street, some people waiting at bus stops, walked back.
- Shower, Shave, etc.
- Drank a morning cup of coffee while listening to my first German lesson.
The exercise is only for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. On Tuesday and Thursday I get another 30 minutes of time (I’m still going to wake up at 7, though). I let myself sleep in Saturday and Sunday. If I can manage to keep it up for three weeks, I should be set.
Note on the shave: I’ve added something new to my shave (this is where Vlad gets curious and Max starts rolling his eyes). I’ve started using Jojoba oil as an aftershave. It’s really just a moisturizer. As with most of my nutty (and bad, according to my father) ideas about shaving, it did come from this shaveblog.
And now just a bunch of quick notes and links:
- Gapingvoid has this cartoon to summarize our post-graduation state (by our, I mean my and most of the people reading this post).
- Since I made Max roll his eyes, here’s an interesting link for him on commemorating the anniversary of Tiananmen in the Chinese blogoshpere.
- This will be probably be my last post for a long time made from a machine running Windows, since today is the day I will be going to the Apple store near Boca to get a not-so-shiny new black Macbook!
- I’ve got an ICC account. My old handle used to be boardsilly. It is now scottc229, which means I need to build up a rating. Please don’t look at my blitz rating, please don’t look at my blitz rating, “Hey Morris, I just looked at that guy’s blitz rating!” Well, as long as you don’t look at the actual games- doh!
- Food for thought: I could kill two birds with one stone in my morning routine by listening to the German lesson during my walk. The only problem, since I think Max would forgive the isolationism, is that the lessons require that I repeat everything, usually three times, so that I’d be walking past McDonald’s saying “Deutsch, (pause) Deutsch, (pause) Deutsch.” Then again, FL doesn’t have pedestrians who would hear me and report me to the authorities, so maybe I should give it a try!
- There was probably something else I wanted to mention but it must not be that important, so I’ll end this post now.
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