So yesterday Nikki McWilliams (of biscuit and teacake illustration/cushion fame) said that today was ‘day in the life’ day where you blog the details of your day no matter how insignificant or routine you think your activities. The blogs actually make interesting reading for the voyeur in us. So here goes:
Feb 1st 2012
8.35 - Awake exhausted have a cold and was still awake at 3.30. Checked all my emails, one from a graduate who’s helping me with my research and is so enthusiastic it helps my mood. Also my weekly running newsletter from @bangsandabun who has got a team of girls (bangsontherun) to go from no running to a half marathon in April. I heard about this a few weeks ago and decided to join in. Newsletter frustrating because I’m sick and can’t run. Takes me 35 minutes of grumping to get up.
9.10 - Decide to watch part 2 of birdsong while I clean the house and run a bath - i.e. filling the bath with the kettle due to broken shower and useless boiler. About 20 minutes to get a bath to lukewarm. GAH. Birdsong not cheering.
10.30 - I make and send January’s consultancy invoices and sort out the budget for February having just been paid. I was rich for about 20 minutes before I paid all my bills etc. and left myself with less the jobseekers per week. Sigh.
11.15 - Watched at short video on designing better services and found a good quote that I can use for my research methodology.
11.25 - It’s time to sit down and get started on writing up my pilot study. What is interesting is actually the information i’m getting about the operations and strategy for the data collection rather than what participants where say (which matched prior research). In order to make the proper case examples successful and insightful I am going to have to overhaul my strategy.
11.35 - Still haven’t started, need to make tea!
12.27 - Tesco delivery arrives, have written a good chunk so happy to take a break to put food away and eat a big lunch (havent’t had any breakfast as I was waiting for the good stuff to arrive!).
13.40 - Bake a cake
15.22- Kick myself for spending the afternoon baking THIS —->
Monstrosity!
Bin.
Back to work.
16.16 - Cold is making me feel like death so going to go read some papers (academic) in bed.
16.57 - Went to check the mail and unpacked my new FAKE benefit - now having to spend time reporting to ebay and getting a refund. Today is not my day!
18.21 - Finished the section I was writing, read the contents of google reader, played on twitter. Now gonna make dinner then do some of my Teaching in HE module work. Really wish I was well so I could go running, instead i’ll look at this as a recovery week and eat lots of healthy grub so i’m fit as a fiddle next week.
20.08 - Movie + Bed
