dougalfish recently wrote a day in the life, and I thought it was neat! Here is a recent day in the life:

* Wake at 6:45 when hubby wakes, fall back asleep.
* Wake at 7:40 when hubby kisses me good-bye for work, fall back asleep.
* Jump out of bed at 8:30 – overslept! Shower, grab Mini-Wheats cereal. Eat while starting the proofing of a nonfiction book.
* Get email from hubby at 9:50 about a YouTube cat video. I watch it and it’s amusing, but I am not fond of cats; he and his group love cats.
* Turn on WFUV streaming online at 10 a.m. Keep proofing.
* Hubby emails me about going to dinner with his parents at 10:15. Then keep proofing.
* Phone rings: I check caller ID; it’s telemarketing so I let it go to machine. Keep proofing.
* Get cantaloupe pieces from fridge for snack at 10:23. On way back to computer, turn on tub faucet to a trickle for the cat because he likes to drink from moving water (and thus another reason why cats are a pain in the ass). Eat melon while proofing.
* Rock out to old R.E.M. song on radio at 10:35. Check clock and notice I am running behind on work and start to freak out! Keep proofing.
* My friend D calls for 4 min. at 10:51. Keep proofing.
* Done with proofing at 11:25. Recount the pages I have left in this project and realize I must increase my sessions by 11 pages each day to finish on time! Freak out a bit.
* Start allotted fiction proofreading at 11:29.
* Finish fiction proofing at 12:38. Get up to make veggie sandwich for lunch. Walk by the bathroom and realize that I never turned off the faucet trickle that the cat was drinking from. Shut off faucet and then make lunch. Eat while watching Match Game on GSN.
* Start editing allotted romance novel pages at 1:38.
* Phone rings at 2:09: I ignore another sales call.
* My sis calls at 3:32. We chat until 3:47.
* Get e-mail at 3:48 from a client asking for hours spent on earlier project; I email back.
* Finish editing romance at 4:00.
* Start editing allotted children’s book pages at 4:03.
* Hubby gets home at 5:12. Stay focused for one minute, and finish editing at 5:13.
* Talk to hubby from 5:13 to 5:20, when he gets a call from his sister.
* Check all email accounts, CE Listserv messages at 5:20.
* Check LinkedIn, job post Web sites at 5:30.
* Get ready and go out to dinner with in-laws and hubby.


Now, this is not actually a “typical” day because normally I would work from 6 p.m. to whenever we eat dinner, which is around 8 p.m. Also, I had broken up a lot of projects into little bits and tried to get a lot done on many things this day; normally I might spend a day on only two clients. I think I’ll do another “typical” day next month and see how it compares. :)