Current Rituals // equivocality

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Weekdays

I wake up, turn my alarm off, and before I do anything else, I put on some music
I make my food for work in the order of most to least time consuming to prepare. So currently it’s drink (smoothie), then lunch (sandwich), then breakfast (buttered raisin cinnamon bagel).
When I get into work, I walk in the back, say “mornin’” to the regulars on the way to my office
After entering my office, the first thing I do is plug in my iPod and put on some music
I’ll clean my desk, check my e-mail, turn on the photocopier, etc. but before I get into any serious business, I clean my mug, make some tea, and check Slashdot over breakfast. This is probably the pinnacle of my geekiness.
When I get home, I check my blogroll, eat a snack, shower (unless I’m going out or expecting guests), nap, then wake up to cook and eat dinner
Monday and Wednesday nights are reserved for phonecalls with John, Tuesday and Thursday nights are for Tai Chi class

Weekends

I wake up (too) early, cook breakfast (usually bacon, eggs, and toast) while writing or cleaning, eat, play a game of some sort (currently GTA: San Andreas or FFXII) then fall asleep again
I only check my snail-mail and pay bills on Sundays

I rarely deviate from these daily rituals, perhaps a simpler form of OCD.

10 comments — Follow the feed

#1 Tiana

I like seeing a bit of a snippet of your work life. It’s your most mysterious part (blogularly speaking).

#2 Pearl

no need to medicalize having a discipline and habit as OC. Adds soothing order to the world. Unless routine breaks then hell’s southern belles, there’s going to be some shooting.

#3 Pepijn

I don’t know why…
But I feel joy in reading what people do in there daily lives!
Now it is time for bed!

Bye!

#4 Jeff

@Tiana — My work life isn’t very personal at all, but I have a strict policy of not blogging about it. It’s something I’d rather keep separate; work is work, and life is life. If I blogged anonymously, that would probably be very different.

@Pearl — “Soothing order” is great way of putting it, sort of like “creature comfort”. As a Taoist, I’m supposed to be able to deal with any changes in routine with spontaneity, but that doesn’t always work. Yet.

@Pepijn — I’m always curious about little details in peoples’ lives too. It would seem boring, but it’s not.

#5 maeko

Yea for FFXII. I’m currently playing FFVII again because I got a ceramic white PS2 for my birthday. I’ve only wanted it for, oh, say, FIVE YEARS!

I wish I had your dedication. I have none. Which is why I have little idea of what I will eat, wear, dine, read or write or pay bills until it actually happens.

nate and I are good about cooking, though. “Your call.” “I’m hungry.” “I’m not cooking.” “okay, fine, I will.” And an hour later, we’ll have a meal. But the rest of our schedules are quite haphazard or loosely based. We generally reserve sunday for laundry, but we almost NEVER check open our snail mail. It is only the day or week a bill is due I remember to open the letter and pay it online. Nate is worse.

#6 Sophia

Weren’t you playing FFXII the last time we discussed this? Do you have a PSP? Crisis Core was a great game, I played it while commuting by BART. Now I went back to play FFVII again, but lately I’ve been too tired to play.

I think I need to come up with routines and rituals. I end up wasting a lot of time doing nothing and just surfing the web and spacing out.

#7 Jeff

@Maeko — I never ended up finishing FFVII, so that’s on my list of things to do before I die. I hope they release an updated remake on the PS3 though; the graphics are too much of a step back for me.

I’d prefer to be spontaneous about eating actually, because there are many times when I have something ready to be cooked as part of my weekly schedule, but I don’t feel like it any more.

I wish I could do my laundry on Sundays all the time, but I never have enough clothes ready for that specific day.

@Sophia — Yes, but last time I was about 30% into it, and now I’m about 90% finished (at roughly 140 hours). I’d like to play Crisis Core, maybe that’s another excuse to buy a PSP.

Surfing the web and spacing out is fun, but I always feel too guilty to do it for more than 10 minutes.

#8 Jason

Your mention of OCD made me think of a video I saw recently.

#9 Jason

*shakes head* And I forgot to close the anchor tag.

#10 Jeff

That video is awesome! It inspires me to make a video like that too.