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Summer Schedule

With commencement behind me, I have a week of training, then the full summer of 2017 sprawling before me. Despite my best efforts, I'm unable to hold down school-year schedule sleeping patterns, but I do want to make the most out of my time off, so I thought I'd jot down some of my ideas for what to do for a daily routine. This is likely overly optimistic, but I figure that if I have something put down, it'll help motivate me. A little. Maybe.

Anyway, here's my idea of a typical day this summer, excluding vacations and other responsibilities:

  • 7:45 am Alarm goes off
  • 8:10 am Get out of bed
    • I like to silence my alarm. Sue me.
  • 8:15 am Go for a walk/jog (unlikely)/bike ride
  • 8:45 am Start breakfast all stinky like
  • 8:46 am Tell the boys, likely for the third or fourth time, to put away the iPads and make themselves breakfast
  • 8:50 am Watch an informative YouTube video whilst eating
  • 9:25 am Shower
  • 9:45 am Start the daily essay
  • 10:30 am Gently (read: loudly) tell the boys that they should be dressed by now and that they need to go water the garden and jump on the tramp or something and no, they can't play video games, they need to do something besides Minecraft this summer
  • 10:35 am Kiss my wife good morning as she rolls out of bed
  • 10:36 am Read some of the following books
    • Aeneid
    • Iliad
    • Paradise Lost
    • Canterbury Tales
    • Shakespeare 
    • Shakespeare criticism
    • A piece of contemporary fiction
  • 11:15 am Practice the guitar (doubles as waking up my wife, who has, like a true champion, refused to let consciousness defeat her goal of sleeping more and thus returned to bed)
  • 11:45 am Interact (?) with the children
  • 1:00 pm or so Lunch, coupled with telling the boys to get themselves food and, no, they still can't sit around and play video games all day
  • 1:30 pm Play video games
  • 7:00 pm Remember that eating has to happen at some point or else I'm liable to get cranky
  • 9:00 pm Decide that I really am hungry and tell the boys to go to bed whilst I heat up some taquitos before returning to my video games
  • 10:45 pm Regret the second half the day and retire to bed. Accidentally awaken my wife as I crawl under the covers. Tell her it's 10:45 at night and she should think about getting up a little earlier. Chuckle as she goes to sew until the early morning. 
  • Repeat.
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