movement

almost every weekday morning, i do the same thing. i get up around 830. i leave for work late. i get to work late. i hang my coat in the closet, drop my bag at my desk, and go to the kitchenette. i fill a plastic bowl with my cereal-o-the-week (multigrain cheerios, currently). i use 1% or 2% milk, whichever smells fresher. i sit down at my desk, log in, and read my new email (usually about 10). and so begins the day.

i do two main sets of internet reading/browsing each day, unless there's something really pressing or an all day meeting. in the morning, it's about the world. i start with today's papers (from slate), and read whatever stories they link that look interesting. then i go to the morning news (.org), which often links to the same stuff but can have real gems occasionally. today, for instance, they link to a live journal entry (and its comments) that have written pop songs in outline form. after that, i usually read the NY times and the washington post online - i browse the headlines, look at the health section, and read the editorials. most of the time i read the drudge report. and i check arts and letters daily, but they only post 3 or so articles a day, and i'm not usually that interested.

then work.

in the afternoons, like now, i usually need a break. that's when i read the blogs. i go onto eric's first, and then go down his links. i skip some, i read others. i get to the ones that aren't linked there, too, through other people's blogs. our little webring is pretty convenient. i wish people would post more. but that kind of makes me a hypocrit, since i'm not very good at it. the afternoon (like now) is when i would probably blog the most. i don't really use my home computer anymore, except on the weekends. good thing, too, since it's on its last legs.

work has been pretty boring recently. i've been surfing the web and reading unrelated materials more often than i think is appropriate. i kind of feel bad about it, because other people around me are really quite busy. but i work faster than most of them, so that kind of makes up for it. or, at least, that's what i tell myself. i'm trying to be better.

on that note, going to be productive.