Wednesday, June 30, 2010

 

* eat pasta salad
* lead plyos
* post-workout snack at Pick Me Up
* post next week's plyos signup
* watch Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

 

* try on lululemon racerbacks
* eat pasta salad
* enter and pay bills
* make weekly plan
* unpack gear
* soak booties and wristguards
* prep for plyos

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

 

* cancel plyos
* make Scott Pilgrim avatar

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Summer Work Wear

I have a plan for my work clothes like the Five Year Plan. I mean, it's not five years. I just mean that it's repressive. I need to not think about what to wear, and I ride my bike to work—

So I pick from one of three khakis on Monday, one of two pleated skirts on Tuesday, one of two cords on Wednesday, one of three miniskirts on Thursday, and one of two jeans on Friday. I used to have more jeans, but I have derby thighs now. I wear leggings if I'm wearing a skirt. Then I put on a tank top, no show black socks, and brown suede gym shoes. I have a little black sweater that I put on at the office.

Poppy, you wear no show socks and gym shoes with everything? Yes. Yes, I do.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Summer Chart

One may as well begin with a chart:

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
HOBBY
 
WORK
 
WORK
 
WORK
 
WORK
 
WORK
 
PLAY
Kru boot
HOBBY
 
WORK
 
WORK
 
WORK
 
WORK
 
WORK
 
HOBBY
 
PASTIME
 
HOBBY
 
HOBBY
 
PLAY
plyos
PLAY
run
PASTIME
 
PASTIME
 
PASTIME
 
PLAY
MOD skate
HOBBY
 
HOBBY
 
HOBBY
 
PASTIME
 
PASTIME
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 
SLEEP
 

I'm switching from a "base three" to a "base four" chart, meaning that the boxes now represent four hour blocks of time. Roughly. To deemphasize the proportion of WORK during the week. Which is to say nothing about the proportion of SLEEP, which I'm now showing. Look, that is how much you sleep & this is how much is left, this is what you have to work with.

I know that's not what base four means.888 by Judy Horacek

I'm lucky, actually, that work takes just a third of my week & just weekdays at that. Everybody else in my office works sixty hour weeks pretty regularly; usually even if you're nonexempt, your forty hour work week is forty hours like a two-by-four is two inches by four inches.

But I actually do sleep eight hours and work eight hours. Like literally, I go to bed at 1:00 AM, get out of bed at 8:00 AM and leave the house to ride my bike to work at 9:00 AM. I leave work at 5:00 PM and ride my bike home. Then, play for eight hours until it's time for bed. This is "play" pretty widely defined to include, like, doing the dishes sometimes. Which I keep down by, you know, almost never cooking.

The cartoon is by Judy Horacek, I got it in an earlier life from Ika who explains:

You know in Australia, they have this huge deal about the 8-hour working day as a kind of victory for the unions, it's a big thing in their history. There's actually a monument to it in Melbourne somewhere. So the chart would go: 8 hours work, 8 hours play, 8 hours sleep. Judy Horacek (who is an awesome Australian feminist cartoonist who you should check out if you don't already know her work, her web page is: http://www.horacek.com.au/) did a cartoon about it which I am attaching for you because I keep thinking of it when I read your blog.

By the way the bike ride to work counts as work, and the bike ride home counts as play.