I am sure you have always wanted to know what a day in my life is like. Since you can’t spend the day with me (well, you could but who would want to?), I thought I would share my typical day here. This isn’t literally a single day in my life, but a composite of several days.
4:45 a.m.: Wide awake. Toss and turn until 5:30 when newspapers arrive (the Florida Times-Union and the Wall Street Journal). Check iPhone e-mails.
5:30 a.m.: Make coffee and read the papers for about an hour. Slowly move up the evolutionary scale from sea slug as coffee takes effect.
6:30 a.m.: Check Google Analytics for my web site. Check my position on Google (no.6 for main keywords – woohoo!). Check various e-mail accounts. Fire up TweetDeck to check my three Twitter accounts. Fire up Facebook to check my wall and two pages for which I am responsible.
7 a.m.: Answer a few e-mails. Check some links gathered from Twitter and Facebook.
7:30 a.m.: Stop and eat a bowl of Shredded Wheat (product placement moment) with banana. Read a few more articles in WSJ I skipped first run through.
7:45 a.m.: Work on blog post. Use Snagit and PhotoShop to process art for blog. Upload all.
8:30 a.m.: Watch SEO and social media videos I downloaded. Take notes to remind myself what I need to do.
9 a.m.: Grade some papers and record the grades. Fewer papers than normal because many students didn’t complete work on time. Re-do syllabus to give them more time.
10 a.m.: Go down to workout room at condo and put in 20 minutes on exercise bike. Hit a few weight machines. Shower.
11 a.m. Leave for campus and office hour. No visitors, as usual.
12 noon: Walk to classroom. Newspaper design class is working on finishing a SoundSlides project that was due last week and an exercise involving section flags and column logos. Deadlines, schmedlines. Will re-do syllabus to give them more time. Explain the difference between a full-column logo and a half-column logo to three students who can’t see any difference, despite examples in text. (But then many said they didn’t have money for textbooks. Note: Money is apparently available for iPhone.) Demo how to set typographic styles in InDesign. Four students are uninterested and work on their computers while I talk. Will spend time with each, I’m sure, going over what I just spoke about.
1:30 p.m.: Class over. Walk back to office building for search committee meeting.
2:30 p.m.: Head home.
3 p.m.: Check day’s Adsense stats, e-mail, Facebook and TweetDeck again. Click on a few links. Share one on Twitter.
3:30 p.m.: Clean up desk. Pay two bills online.
3:45 p.m.: Feel drowsy. Lie down for 45 minutes. Sleep for about 30.
4:30 p.m.: Work on web site for client. Monitor various e-mails, social media accounts.
5:30 p.m.: Work on alumni survey for university.
6 p.m.: leave for yoga class at 6:30.
8 p.m.: home from yoga class. Fix and eat dinner.
8:10 p.m.: (I eat fast. Hey, I live alone. It is not a social event.) Return to home office to work on blog. Write another blog post, schedule it and upload art. Click the “Stumbleupon” link in my browser about 20 times. Find good site about color on a web page. Write yet another blog post about color tools for web pages (tomorrow). Waste time on a few more random sites.
9 p.m.: Create newspaper design quiz and exercise for classes.
9:45 p.m.: Starting to roll. Create ad for News Design School in PhotoShop in case I ever get the chance to use it. Go through blog doing SEO revisions. Still monitoring Twitter, Facebook, e-mails.
10:45 p.m.: A few last StumbleUpon sites. It’s addictive!
11 p.m.: Head for bed. Read New Yorker magazine a bit.
11:20 p.m.: Turn out the lights.
That’s it. Hope you enjoyed.
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I love it!! I will say tho, you wake earlier and go to bed later than me… what does that say?!
Well, it probably says (a) I am old and (b) I am stressed out and having trouble sleeping. Also, I really get rolling at night nowadays and when I try to go to bed earlier, my mind is still racing. I need to meditate before bed I suppose….