In case you were wondering what an average day is like so far, I'll lay it out for you:
I wake up around 1130-1230 depending on how motivated I am to get out of bed, or if the noise from construction outside is unbearable. Sometimes I wake up at 1000, occasionally at 1330.
Next I take a shower, there is a set routine to keep the rest of my room from getting wet, and to make sure my toilet paper remains dry. I have to lay a towel outside the bathroom door, and the towel inside has to cover the toilet paper, just in case.
After the shower it's usually 1200-1300 meaning that I have two to three hours of free time before I have to be at work (1500, 3pm). If I have food to eat for breakfast, this is the time I do so, or if I have errands to run I do them during this period of time as well. I don't move very fast at this time, usually as a result of the night before.
After I eat breakfast, or run my essential errands, I probably only have an hour left before I have to be at work, maybe two hours. This is when I combine dressing with watching American television programs on my computer. Just this morning I discovered a leaked episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, which I watched whilst eating several oranges. Usually Friday is my TV day--my favorite shows come out Thursday night in the US.
After watching a couple shows, and getting dressed I head out for work. If I am feeling ambitious I leave a bit earlier and wander around for a short while--this is becoming increasingly rare on the weekdays.
The first two hours of work consists of creating a lesson plan for my classes, which takes a half hour preceded by 1.5 hours of sitting at my computer entertaining myself. Some days I won't do anything until 1800 (6pm). Then I teach classes for a while; it varies from day to day. I will have a break at some point between classes. This is when I get lunch, even though it's around 1700-2000 (5-8pm), it's still lunch and the Family Mart is my destination of choice. I usually go for crackers, chips, or some rice thing.
Work ends at 2200 (10pm) at which point I head off for my apartment which is three minutes away, or I go out with fellow teachers for drinks and smokes, sometimes dinner. Some nights I stay out until 0500, others I'm home by 0200; usually I fall asleep around 0300. Even if I don't go out, I can't go from working to sleeping in just a few hours and most of the time dinner consists of what my next morning breakfast will be.
I reserve the weekends to exploration and rarely spend that much time in my apartment during them. But the weekdays wear me down and my motivation is just enough to get me out of bed and to work on time.
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