Where does the time go?
Nov. 8th, 2006 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjThis routine journal post is paused for a moment of unholy glee at the national election results. Now all you pols get out there and DO YOUR JOBS. End glee break.
Having this compulsive bug for data collection and analysis, when I saw a news article about what the average American spends time doing these days (as compared with previous decades), I felt the urge to make my own comparison. Having crunched the data for two fairly typical weeks, here's an average composite day in the life of HRJ.
7:00 Radio-alarm goes off and I listen to the news to determine whether the world is still out there making it worth while to get up
7:15 am Get up, perform personal hygiene tasks, get dressed.
7:45 am Leave house (bike or car -- same transit time)
8:00 am Work (including an hour lunch).
5:00 pm Study and do homework for biostatistics class (done at work because that's where the Windows-based statistics package lives).
5:30 pm Leave work. Spend approx. 30 minutes in transit and 10 minutes performing errands (e.g., shopping) to arrive at last at the gym.
6:10 pm Exercise.
6:50 pm Travel home.
7:10 pm Do housework.
7:30 pm Shower and change.
7:50 pm Cook and fix the next day's lunch.
8:00 pm Eat dinner and work on the computer (including on-line time). (These two items can't really be separated easily.)
10:10 pm Random "other" category (placed here arbitrarily -- it may occur at other points in the schedule).
10:40 pm Prepare for bed.
10:50 pm Do some last-minute housework task.
11:00 pm Read in bed.
11:15 pm Lights out.
On Wednesdays, everything between "leave work" and "Random other category" is replaced by "take BART into SF for biostatistics class and return home".
And that is my boring everyday existence.
Having this compulsive bug for data collection and analysis, when I saw a news article about what the average American spends time doing these days (as compared with previous decades), I felt the urge to make my own comparison. Having crunched the data for two fairly typical weeks, here's an average composite day in the life of HRJ.
7:00 Radio-alarm goes off and I listen to the news to determine whether the world is still out there making it worth while to get up
7:15 am Get up, perform personal hygiene tasks, get dressed.
7:45 am Leave house (bike or car -- same transit time)
8:00 am Work (including an hour lunch).
5:00 pm Study and do homework for biostatistics class (done at work because that's where the Windows-based statistics package lives).
5:30 pm Leave work. Spend approx. 30 minutes in transit and 10 minutes performing errands (e.g., shopping) to arrive at last at the gym.
6:10 pm Exercise.
6:50 pm Travel home.
7:10 pm Do housework.
7:30 pm Shower and change.
7:50 pm Cook and fix the next day's lunch.
8:00 pm Eat dinner and work on the computer (including on-line time). (These two items can't really be separated easily.)
10:10 pm Random "other" category (placed here arbitrarily -- it may occur at other points in the schedule).
10:40 pm Prepare for bed.
10:50 pm Do some last-minute housework task.
11:00 pm Read in bed.
11:15 pm Lights out.
On Wednesdays, everything between "leave work" and "Random other category" is replaced by "take BART into SF for biostatistics class and return home".
And that is my boring everyday existence.
