Time Tracking Tuesday

 Monday is my favorite day of the week… when everything goes according to plan. When things get off track, I feel like the whole week threatens to tumble. 

Here’s how my Monday unfolded yesterday:

5:15 alarm for coffee and word games on my phone

5:30-6:20 Followed by 50 minutes on the elliptical while I listened to Grey Wolf and worked on my adjunct online classes. I do retention on Mondays and also grade any late work from the previous module. I have 2 sections this 8-week term, so it took me a little while to reach out to students with missing work and make sure my grade book is up-to-date. I also checked in on our student outreach system to see if any of my students have alerts and checked my email.

6:20-6:40: Time to wipe down 3 bathrooms really fast and get ready for some yoga. Where I was joined by Minnie.

6:55-7:15: Pack lunches, loosely supervise breakfast (Dorothy usually packs her own, but she forgot Sunday night, so I did hers and mine and my dinner and Minnie’s)

Minnie was bummed because she can’t have PB sandwiches at school, so she had lunch for breakfast, complete with an oatmeal scotchie and chips and salsa.

7:15-7:45: Make beds, general tidying, help the kids get ready to go, make sure activity bags are packed

I definitely lost some time there because all of the sudden, it was 8:15, which is the time I would really like to leave to take Minnie to school, and I looked like this still:

But! Here I am just 15 minutes later

I dropped Minnie off at 8:45 (15 minutes late, which definitely tracks) and dug into a bagel with cream cheese and lox and a second cup of coffee, plus Pod Save America for my drive to the office

I spent a pleasant 20 minutes planning my day and week when I got to the office and then went downstairs to teach my large lecture class

Class was over by 11, meaning I had five hours to do course prep and exam grading, put out administrative fires, meet with graduate students, and hold office hours. I enjoyed every one of them, even though I forgot my computer today **yikes face**

Luckily I had my iPad. THAT NEEDED A SOFTWARE UPDATE OF COURSE.

Lunch: (plus a pear and a salted caramel brownie)

Dinner and snacks:

The wrap is a copycat Whole Foods curried chicken salad wrap and I lurve it.

4-6pm: Staff meeting for the gen ed course I direct. Someone needed to attend via Zoom and there were so many technical difficulties. SO MANY.

6:-7:30: Watching the tail end of dive practice, reading my book, and eating my packed dinner.

7:30-8:15: Drive the dive carpool home

9:50 And now I am back on the couch, doing a little work and watching Shrinking in my PJ’s with a flute of sparkling rose champagne. PHEW!