{"id":243,"date":"2002-04-05T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-05T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2002-04-05T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-05T23:28:00","slug":"243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Friday Five<\/a>, found initially via kottke.org<\/a><\/p>\n

1. What are the first things that you do in the morning to start your day?<\/strong><\/p>\n

First, I wake up. I find this helps immeasurably. Then I grab a towel and some clothes and stumble to the bathroom for my morning shower. I get dressed in the bathroom not so much out of modesty — I live alone — but because I don’t want to traipse naked and wet across my cold, cold living room and its hardwood floor. Once finished getting dressed, I brush my teeth and pocket my keys and my wallet, usually spend a few minutes transfixed to the television or mesmerized by the radio while I struggle with the whole concept of being awake, and then I head out the door, locking it behind me. If I’m lucky, I have about five minutes to get to work. I almost never eat breakfast on weekdays, the only days I really have a routine<\/em>. That might be a mistake — by eleven I’m usually famished and can’t think straight — but food generally doesn’t agree with me until I’ve been awake for an hour, and I have enough trouble allowing half an hour for getting dressed and my commute.<\/p>\n

2. What are the last things that you do at night before going to bed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I make sure my alarm is set, my door is locked, and then I climb into bed and turn off the light. Sometimes, but as often as I should, I leave on the radio, more because I know I’ll forget to turn NPR back on<\/em> in the morning than anything else. <\/p>\n

3. What daily routine have you recently added to your day?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My routine has stayed basically the same for years. The only real difference between now and a year ago is I have a better paying job and a car. But I’ve had the better paying job since September and the car since January, so I wouldn’t really call those recent alterations to my day. I am nothing if not predictable. But then, you probably knew I was going to say that, didn’t you?<\/p>\n

4. What routine do you wish you could get rid of?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m happiest when I can sleep without setting my alarm at all, so I would like it if I didn’t have to be at work until at least 9 or 10 every morning. Then I could have more time to myself in the morning, more time to adjust — maybe even have some breakfast — and I could still cling to this dream of eight hours of sleep every night. So it’s not so much a routine I want to get rid<\/em> of, as it is a rountine that needs some serious tweaking. I won’t even begin to bore you with the routines that need tweaking at work.<\/p>\n

5. What’s the one thing that makes you feel like something is missing if you don’t do it some point within your day?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hands down, Caption This<\/a>. It’s just part of who I am. And, really, if I<\/em> don’t be me, who will?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}