I was going to write a couple of more effortful posts to sum up more of what I got out of last weekend's getaway, but instead I spent my evening time brooding over some of my self-betterment goals for the summer, particularly with regard to fitness (which feels like the most uncertain).
I decided that, although my semester of teaching ended partway through May, the summer starts in earnest tomorrow. I'm calling next week Week 1, and I have up through Week 12 or Week 13 to make what I can of -- then a very stressful fall semester begins.
My strategy this summer, which I haven't tried before, is to set a very strict schedule (at least morning schedule) to follow during weekdays. The big unknown is how I'm going to work out and on which days and how long it will take, but assuming that I can do a half-hour thing at my home, let's say, 4 days a week (I've heard of this being successful!), a plausible schedule looks as follows:
wake up around 8am or just earlier (depending on how quickly I'll actually get out of bed), check quick things online, and eat my usual small breakfast
shower and be done showering by 9am (I think this should be the big non-negotiable!)
work-out routine until 9:30am or so, can listen to whatever podcast I like during
reading for self-betterment 9:30-10:00am or maybe until 10:15am: for now this will usually mean reading out of the textbook on the history of Middle Eastern conflicts that was lent to me like a year ago, but which can also mean reading heavy blog posts that have been hanging around as tabs
do my best to leave home for my office no later than 10:30am
if Adulting Task of the Week needs to be done/arranged, late morning is the time to do/arrange it; I think most of these can be done in my office
can otherwise be slow and unfocused until after lunch; then I really do need to work on Math Stuff and focus on leaving the office at some reasonable hour rather than an obscenely late hour past dinnertime
major bike ride twice during the week, maybe additionally once on some weekend days (this is hard to figure out how to schedule, especially since I still don't know quite how the home work-out thing is going to work -- maybe working out is Tuesday through Friday and the bike ride is Mondays and Thursdays, weather permitting? with Thursday being the only day where both happens and the bike ride is probably in the afternoon? otherwise the bike ride could be a first-thing-in-the-morning thing before the shower)
on weeknights (starting tonight), all productive activity stops at 10:50pm following the advice of someone I talked to at last weekend's event (Tumblr-posting usually counts but I guess I've decided writing this post doesn't!)
I mean, if I write it down in a place where some other people can see it, I'll follow through, right?
