A Fine Day, An Excellent Schedule

A great summer day, Teo style*:

7:15: Wake up. Way better than 6:30. More interesting than 8:00. It sets up many possibilities for the day.
8:00 - 11:00: Sitting at the best coffee shop that exists on the planet. Had a bagel and awesome coffee. After a couple hours, a refill plus a cranberry-lemon muffin that redefines a great breakfast. Three good hours of essay writing. Banged out four of them and organized several others.
11:00 - 12:00: Home for reconoitering, correspondence, and water.
12:00 - 1:15: A bike ride to Navy Pier and back. A little more than 15 miles. 90 degrees. High wind. Awesome. Been getting lots of exercise as I am apparently in training for the September/October brutality that will disallow anything remotely similar to healthy physical activity (not great sleep and inconsistent eating is a'comin). Exercising every day and eating very reasonably these days. Feeling good. Lots of water after the ride.
2:00 - 4:30: Sitting at home in the A/C, new cup of coffee, back to work on more internship research and writing. Feeling in control on this stuff at this moment (remind me of this when I am losing my mind in the near future).
4:30 - 6:00: Not working. Eating. Communicating with people outside of my apartment. Interaction with human beings. This is positive.
6:00 - 10:00: Cubs game on in the background while more computer work is being done. The Cubs are so bad that they are a new type of entertainment, and it is easy to work while that comedy is on the TV at low volume.
10:00 - 11:00: Comedy Central, dontchaknow. A can't miss these days.

So that's not all that exciting for the rest of you, but for dear ol' Teo, it hits the spot. Productivity, exercise, rest, coffee, not on a deadline in sight today, feeling in control...all is good.

Tomorrow: Going to Knoxville to waterski with LB. I recall having a very bad boogie board experience with Kevlar Pinata in 1992 or 1993, and I'm not sure I've attempted anything similar since then. I think I'm still sore from getting thrown around a lake in upstate New York that weekend. Hopefully I don't dislocate my ribcage this weekend.


* It must be recognized that I am currently incapable of having a great day that is not somewhat productive. Maybe at some point in the future (later in the week? 2025? sometime between now and then?) I will be able to enjoy a day off without doing something productive, but a day with nothing productive is actually detrimental to my current state of perpetual anxiety. In order to stave off uncomfortable anxiety, I must take care of a little bit (or a lot of bit) of internship stuff every day. So. This great day is in the context of doing something so that I can perpetually process my anxiety and not become overwhelmed later on. Sigh.