Eden Robins » time management http://www.monkeythumbs.com writer. editor. dildo-slinger. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:51:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 New-fangled time management skills http://www.monkeythumbs.com/2009/07/new-fangled-time-management-skills/ http://www.monkeythumbs.com/2009/07/new-fangled-time-management-skills/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:59:45 +0000 Eden http://www.monkeythumbs.com/?p=33 So I’ve been trying this new thing called “time management” recently. It’s kind of a new idea so I don’t know if any of you have heard of it. It involves scheduling the things you want and/or need to do, and then doing those things within an allotted time slot. This is complicated, I know, so here’s an example. I go into work at 11:45am every day (I know, lucky me, right?), so I have my mornings free to write, piddle around, make coffee, what have you. Previous to my “time management” plan, I would sort of vaguely assert that I wanted to “write” in the mornings, but what this usually entailed was opening a file at 9am, staring at it for 5 minutes, going to make coffee, staring at the file and/or writing 2 sentences, piddling around on the internet, watching cars get towed on my street, tending to my plants, making gluten-free frozen waffles… you get the idea.

NOW, however, I am a model of efficiency. I have decided that from 10-11, I will write, and that is all I will do. The compromise is that from 9-10 and from 11 until I bike to work, I can fritter away the precious moments of my life however I choose. This technique works surprisingly well. Now, two-plus hours is not a terribly long period of time to manage, and I have a whole day off coming up soon, which I usually spend roaming around the city, drinking too much coffee and “trying to write.” Can I manage a whole day? Can I actually save some of that day for doing OTHER things I enjoy? I shiver with excitement at the prospect.

Here’s an unrelated question (does anybody actually read this thing, or am I just talking to myself?) I was thinking of documenting the weird things that happen at the sex shop, both for my own enjoyment and possible future mining of ideas… but y’know, if there’s an audience to consider, I’m happy to consider their preferences.  The stories are funny, usually, but can involve some naughty language and salacious content.

Also, today is the last day of Clarion West. I can’t quite believe it, and I’m not even there this year.

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