Strangely productive

[altariel]

It's weird how, if you get up at 6am, you can get the work you'd planned for the day done by 3pm. Huh. It'll never catch on.

I think I'll watch some West Wing.

Comments

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Go you!

*mischievous look* Of course, if you've finished today's work by 3pm, you could always make a start on tomorrow's work. *ducks*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, right!

[executrix.livejournal.com]

You could schedule less work and be finished by 7 am.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That's far too easily done.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Alas, I'm perfectly capable of getting up at 6am and spending the next four hours stumbling around in a voidish mish-mash of unaccomplishment, realising at 10am that I have done nothing and yet feel exhausted already.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I do the voidish mish-mash of unaccomplishment every day - today too - it's just that today it was over by half nine rather than getting on for one.

Running With the Hares and Hunting With the Hounds

[executrix.livejournal.com]

If tomorrow's work is ducks, of course you have to be up with the chickens.

Re: Running With the Hares and Hunting With the Hounds

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Fair weather or fowl.

Re: Running With the Hares and Hunting With the Hounds

[executrix.livejournal.com]

The difference between a lawyer and a rooster is that a rooster wakes up each day ready to cluck defiance...

Re: Running With the Hares and Hunting With the Hounds

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

[fifitrix.livejournal.com]

God thats impressive.
Not the getting done by 3pm lark - I can do that on a good day when other people co-operate and I don't brake for grannies.
No - what I'm really impressed by is the getting up at 6am bit.
I have to drag myself out of bed when the alarm goes off for about the 15th time at about 7:30am and its really hard work.

Left to my own devices I would sleep until about noon. Actually I seriously think that I would be nocturnal about 70% of the time and only surface in daylight hours to go shopping and feed my cat. If I ever win the lottery (which would be stunning since I hardly ever play) then I expect you'd mostly only see me in darkness. Except at cons due to the reality suspension which happens once a con starts.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

what I'm really impressed by is the getting up at 6am bit

I didn't have much choice in the matter. Mr Altariel had an early morning meeting in London, and the alarm went off at 5am. By the time he'd done the multiple snooze thing, it was 5.30am. He then had a shower. The motor that drives the shower is in the airing cupboard, which is in the main bedroom, and about two feet away from my head when it's resting on my pillow. By 6am I was wide awake. But left to my own devices I can cheerfully spend the whole day in bed, only surfacing now again for snacks.

[mgkellner.livejournal.com]

Getting up early is the best way to get everything done. Being alone in the house helps as well. In the school year, when I get up at 6:30, the wife leaves for school at 7:00 and the child is on the school bus at 7:15, I accomplish a lot every day. During summer vacation, when wife and child are here each day, I sleep till 10, and get little done.

mk

[altariel.livejournal.com]

An empty house can work for and against me. I work better when I know I'm going to be undisturbed. And I can work really badly when I know there's no-one to watch me slobbing in front of the TV.

[dolamrothdame.livejournal.com]

I always have these big plans about the work I'm going to get done. Get up at six with the kids, then go back to bed about 7:30. This morning I woke up the second time at 11:00. Puts the rest of the day in a bit of a rush. And I end up staying up until the wee hours--was putting the trash out at 1:00 AM this morning.

I must get turned around before I start back to work. But the other wretched thing is, my muse is often friskiest from about 11:00 PM on. A lot of Captain was written in the wee hours of the morning, as I existed in a state of permanent sleep deprivation. Hmmmm, maybe I should try that again...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I have those big plans too. Mostly concerning stories I owe you ;-D And then I seem to end up aimlessly surfing the net.

I wrote a lot of Chess is that sleep-deprived state. And on trains. Trains were good.

Isn't it, though?

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I just find it exceedingly difficult to get up at 6. Plus then I have to go into the day job, unless it's a weekend, and I'd never wake up at 6 then. Oh well. Glad that you had such a productive day!

p.s. you asked if I had received feedback on "Under the Waterfall" after it was e-published in Refactory- sadly, no. :( Ah well. I am a quasi-academic. If that.

Re: Isn't it, though?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I was woken by someone else's alarm clock going off at 5am. By the time the snooze had sounded several times and I'd listened to the shower (the motor for which is in the bedroom, about two feet above my head), I wasn't really asleep at all :-)

Hopefully what will happen with having "Under the Waterfall" in a journal like Refractory is that people will be able to find it for a much longer period of time.

Re: Isn't it, though?

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yuck. I end up with one of our cats biting my hair and pawing at me and/or sitting on me (and this is an overweight, 15 pound cat!) early in the a.m. for me to feed him. I try to resist- negative reinforcement and all that, but sometimes it's impossible. :(

Re: Isn't it, though?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think cats are never willing to negotiate.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I'm just trying to adjust to the weirdness of having got up at 7.30, started work about nine and reached the day's target by 5.15. No, I don't think I can manage it again.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

As glitterboy1 pointed out, I could have started on the following day's work. But that would have been a bit keen, I reckon.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Well, I did put in another hour round about eleven, before watching Take Care of My Cat.

But today's more normal. 11.15 a.m. and all I've managed so far is Farscape trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/farscape/), shower, breakfast and most of my first newspaper.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

You're a shower ahead of me.