August 4, 2019 in Productivity Diary

Look at how much time flies! It’s August already. Soon I’ll start my first day of teaching and I’m so so so so not ready. I’m just not good at public speaking.

My conference went as expected. Which was relatively bad but I’m so glad it wasn’t terrible. That was a terrible idea to say I’d written something I hadn’t. Never again. I did learn quite a few things even from such a small, small conference.

List of things I have to do at home:
-teaching prep, especially the first week of school
-fix my sister’s essays
-clean house, push my stuffs to one side
-send and respond to emails/messages
-some translation projects
-read those 3 books to write a book review.
-write law school personal statements
-maybe write that philosophy of nature paper too.

I have the Borgen Project internship starting in Sept too (should’ve done it sooner) so the earlier I’m done with teaching prep, book review, law school statements, and probably even my philosophy of nature essay the more time i can focus on it.

Easier said than
n done. But at least I have the next 10 days on my own.

7:21 AM on the bus home.
8:18 AM waiting for the train.

If I wish to be successful in law school, I should be able to handle this much, right?

Let’s alternate tasks by desirableness:
-TEACHING PREP IN GENERAL
-fix my sister’s essay
-CLEAN HOUSE
-translation projects
-SEND ONE EMAIL
-read books for book review
-TEACHING PREP FIRST WEEK
-nature’s paper

I should only have 6 tasks but these are all tasks that are taking days to be done.

8:59 AM been waiting for the bus for the past 15 minutes.

I think all my procrastination when it comes to email is because I fret over using the EXACT language. I personally prefer not getting email to getting short and blunts email. But I should be more OK with that.

9:13 AM HOME! I really want to sleep.
9:14 AM get clothes to change.
9:16 AM turn on music and shower! Probably one of the few times I could do this.
9:39 AM now I’m going to sleep until whenever I’m up. Love life. Love everyone!
( just did 5 minutes of Latin too)

1:09 PM woke up at 12:30 PM. Ate leftover fries. Now let me look up mass time at Holy Rosary. It is still Sunday.
1:13 PM go throw away empty box of fries and make some rice.
1:31 PM need to snap out of this mood. Now set up my favorite study corner.
1:46 PM computer is updating. Wish it was doing that while I was asleep. It’s okay. I’ll take photos of this one book first.

Doing way too much Latin. This punishment is so effective.

Computer is still updating. I’m going crazy that’s for sure.

Ok lets focus on off computer tasks:
-taking photos of books
-clean house
-a decade of the rosary

2:06 PM 10 minutes of cleaning house
2:17 PM 10 minutes of scanning
2:36 PM Computer completed updating like 10 minutes ago, so I went on Prosebox and read for all that time. Such awesome fascinating beautiful stories we have around here. It’s amazing. I’m going to subscribe to Prosebox to show my support. Maybe seeing people being so honest and real can motivate me to be honest and real myself, too. That will be so cool!

Now I need to get up and go to Church. Contemplating going at 5 PM but NAH let’s just do it. Let’s not delay this. I know it’s a half an hour walk there and then I have to get back. But it’s okay. It’s my obligation. I made my baptismal promises.

5:03 PM got home from church a little while ago, now chatting with my mom.
5:09 PM so hurngy. I was so looking forward to eating my fish again.

Well, what happened to me was:
-5ish to 6ish PM: Had a crying spells for missing my (basically, except he’s for free) “therapist”. What triggered it? Someone giving some random advice about how to feel better.
-6ish to 7ish PM: Procrastinated on Quora.

How sad.

Back to my to-do list– really need to prioritize, well.

-TEACHING PREP IN GENERAL
-TEACHING PREP IN GENERAL
-TEACHING PREP IN GENERAL

-fix my sister’s essay
-CLEAN HOUSE
-CLEAN HOUSE

-translation projects
-SEND ONE EMAIL
-read books for book review

-TEACHING PREP FIRST WEEK
-TEACHING PREP FIRST WEEK
-TEACHING PREP FIRST WEEK

Whatever I do, I should just start working already. Oh, and tonight is operation bed by 10. I get to work starting at 9. At least for the next 10 days.

7:28 PM 10 minutes teaching prep
7:40 PM Another 10 minutes teaching prep
7:55 PM I’ve been downloading books. Another 10 minutes teaching prep.
8:07 PM 5minutes break.
8:14 PM fix my sister’s essay
8:25 PM clean house
8:49 PM done with 20 minutes cleaning house. 5 minutes break.

Just had 5 minutes reading for dissertation too.

Well I am so screwed. It is time I execute Operation Bed by 10. Already! Where did my day go?

10:17 PM Ok, why did I venture into the movies commentary section on YouTube? Rush to bed now. I’d like to be up by 6 AM or something. And exercise. Continue tomorrow. This is going to be so much harder that I thought.