My Typical Morning
Personal November 29th, 2006
6:00am - Wake up to the alarm on my phone.
6:05am - Hit the enter button on the iMac, Mail and NewsFire automatically kick into action.
6:06am - Open up my Mail, review new comments and trackbacks on my blog, and read other important emails. I generally have around a dozen new emails each morning, so it’s easy enough to keep under control.
6:15am - Set my eyes on NewsFire. I have around 400 new items to read each morning, I like to go to school with all of these cleared through, so I set down to read them. If I find something interesting that I dont have time to read, I bookmark it to read later.
6:40am - Publish a blog post. Then check blog stats, Feedburner stats, and Technorati links.
7:00am - Head into the kitchen and get breakfast.
7:10am Plug in the iPod nano, put on my Nike+iPod shoes, and go for a quick jog to wake myself up.
7:25am - Get home from the run, plug the nano into it’s dock so it will sync with the Nike+ website, and have a shower.
7:30am My jobs, clean the bathroom, recycling.
8:00am Back onto the iMac and on iChat for a while, I also use this time to reply to some more emails.
9:00am Start school.
Thats what my average weekday morning looks like, what about yours?
November 29th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Nice post! :)
Here’s my classic morning:
7:00 I wake up with my Sony Dream Machine
7:10 I take a shower
7:24 Open my lovely Mac
7:25 Breakfast
7:35 I go outside for a walk and to take pictures (depends on the temperature)
8:00 Fire up Vienna and Camino to check feeds and forums
8:20 Leaving for school
8:30 Arrive to school, do my homeworks, play billiard with my friends etc.
9:30 School begins
November 29th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
6:40: Hit the snooze button on my alarm clock.
6:50: Wake up. (for real)
7:00: Eat some breakfast.
7:15: Shower, tidy up.
7:30: Quick check of email, RSS
7:45: Leave for class.
November 29th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Well my weekday usually consists of this.
7.30 - Wake up
7.45 - Actually get out of bed
7.46 - Take Shower
8.05 - Get downstairs, eat, etc.
8.15 - Leave for school (more like run, so I do run in the morning like glenn :P)
8.30 - Bell rings for class, hope that i’m there.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
6:45 Wake Up
6:46 Shower
6:53 (ish) Check RSS and email
7:00 Breakfast
7:15 Check MacHeist
7:30 Leave for school
November 29th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
How about this…
6:40 - Wake up for school
6:50 - Get out of bed
7:00 - Leave for school
Nice and succinct.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
My morning is full of grogginess and droopy eyes, so I can hardly ever remember what it was like.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
6:45 - Wake up.
6:50 - Sync up my iPod for new podcasts, check RSS and email, etc.
7:00 - Eat breakfast.
7:10 - Brush teeth.
7:20 - Leave for school (walking.)
7:50 - Arrive at school.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
530 - 550 - Wake up, clean up, have a glass of water
600 - 645 - Gym
650 - 720 - Shower, make breakfast/lunch
725 - Leave for work
730 - 415/430 - Work time
You lucky student bastards! I envy you! hehe
November 29th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
How about getting the mac to automaticlly wake there fore waking you in the process, and by time your out of the sack the news is ready to read :)
November 29th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Great idea, I’ll set that up now and each night when I go to bed I’ll just leave Mail and NewsFire open.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Wow, I wish school started at nine for me. Mines starts at 7:39. It sucks.
November 29th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Hmm, a 15 minute run Glenn? That’s kinda quick isn’t it?
I’m an exchange student in the U.S. now so I have a different timetable:
5:00 - wake up to two alarms
5:02 - 7:30 - YM or call my gf back home, check mail, read newsfire
7:30 - sleep in on tuesdays and thursdays, eat breakfast mondays and wednesdays for a 9:40 class.
November 29th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
6:40 - Wake up for school, groggy and all.
6:45 - Check email, Digg, Flickr, etc.
6:55 - Get ready.
7:10 - Eat breakfast.
7:20 - Leave for school.
I really like the idea of a quick jog in the morning, maybe I’ll try it out but waking up even earlier probably won’t do it for me.
November 29th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
6.40: Wake up.
6.41 bathroom
6.45 Check RSS, Mail
7.00 Breakfast
7.10 Leaving for school.
In Germany school starts at 7.40 AM. -.- That kinda sucks.
November 29th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Okay, so now that it’s mid-day here and I’ve had the chance to think about it, I can tell you what my average morning is like.
My Jazz playlist kicks in at 6:37, courtesy Aurora, waking me up gently.
I then lay awake, listening to some Ella Fitzgerald (or whatever else is playing) for a few minutes, trying to regain my consciousness.
I get out of bed by about 6:42 and stumble around, trying to get ready.
Then, when I’m at least half-awake, I sit down in front of my Mac and check how my digg submissions from the previous day did and reply to any sensible comments on them. I then open Newsfire, submit any ‘HOT APPLE NEWS NOW FREE!!!1! IPOD’ to digg, check how my torrents are doing (in Transmission) and reply to any important e-mail (Mail).
At 7:15 I grab some toast and a fresh fruit beverage and read a super-sensationalist front-page story in the Times of India or one of the other “provoking” newspapers (today: ).
After one more short session of RSS surfing with Vienna at the computer and a few minutes of upbeat Turkish music, I head for class/school.
November 29th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Mine is just terrible, I shower before bed to avoid doing it in the morning.
6:00 - Phone wakes me up
6:05 - First Sleep Timer goes off
6:10 - Secound Sleep Timer goes off
6:15 - Third Sleep Timer goes off
6:20 - Fourth Sleep Timer goes off
6:22 - Toilet then I brush my teeth
6:25 - Get changed
6:30 - Out the door for work
6:55 - Arrive at work for a 7:00 start
I have breakfast or “smoko” (without the smokes) around 9ish).
November 29th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Im not really a morning person, i would love to be like you but im not i goto bed at 10 and wake up at 6:55, get up and have a shower at 7:00 7:30 go and have breakfast and watch watevas on tv, 7:50 flick on imac and quickly browse through news headlines (tech news world news blog news and bittorrent tv show scheduals) then i get a ride to skool at 8:10, arrive at skewl at 8:20 and just relax to music or play games on cell/psp/ds talk to friends until 8:45 wen skool comences, then all my active stuff is dne after skool like mountain biking (a good 3 hours or so every day) or squash on wed. and yea i could gointo more depth but i wouldnt want to bore you all now wud i HAHAHHAHAHA
November 29th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
6:25: Roll out of bed after alarm goes off for 20 minutes (no joke!)
6:35: Get in car and drive to school
7:20: Get to school, and
7:30: Start school
No time for my Mac in the morning :-(
November 29th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Glenn, is it summer in New Zealand at the moment? 6:00 is such an early time to wake up I think, and now its winter here in England I couldn’t imagine doing it. What time do you normally go to bed then?
November 29th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
7:45 my “Swatch Beat” alarm starts
8:00 Take a cofee made with my new Nespresso machine, “longo” cofee
8:05 I try to weak up my girlfriend
8:07 Get my dogs out
8:10 Open my Power Book G4 and read some emails
8:15 Take a shower
8:20 While I’m dressing, read more emails
8:30 Get to gym
10:15 / 19:30 @ work, some NetNewsWire, phone, firefox, rapidweaver…
November 29th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
@ Josh.
From what I can tell he’s usually in bed by 9pm. Way too early for me, I’m a 1-2am person myself :)
November 29th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
It’s impossible for me to sleep before 11 PM.
November 29th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
@ Smaran.
ditto. Not sure what it is, but it’s just impossible for me.
November 29th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
I know what it is. I love the peace and quiet that I can only get after dark, when everyone’s in their beds. It’s my time. Nobody to tell me what to do, no crowds, nobody.
When the world sleeps, I prowl the city (more like my room :-P).
November 30th, 2006 at 12:03 am
Yea, that’s probably it. I just seem to be able to get work done at the crack of dawn :-P.
It’s currently 4am and I should probably be heading to bed, but I don’t have school tomorrow :-), and i’m installing a bunch of updates.
November 30th, 2006 at 12:10 am
It’s the same with me. I get a lot more work done late in the night. Maybe it has something to do with pressure.
Install those updates tomorrow and get off the Mac already ;-)
It’s 5:40 PM here.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:42 am
You wake up at 6am? I couldn’t do that! I’m usually going to bed at about 4 to 5am every day. I don’t really need to, I just have an odd sleeping pattern. I had two hours sleep last night, before getting up for a lecture.
My ‘getting ready’ is usually done in 8 minutes, where I throw whatever clothes on I laid out for myself, brush my teeth, grab my PowerBook and stumble out through the door. That’s about it.
Everything, such as check my Mail and so forth, is done when I’m awake - about 5pm. =P
November 30th, 2006 at 2:02 am
Geez, you do all that in the morning? I beat my alarm clock from 6:30 to 7:10. Then rush to get ready and do about 15 miles over the speed limit to get to work.
I’m a night person, I do all my recreation from 6 PM to 2 AM.
November 30th, 2006 at 2:29 am
@Smaran
I’m just about to try Aurora. I had a bit of trouble using Awaken from a sleeping state so i hope this helps. You must have a pretty busy time checking your digg submissions, I take a while looking at yours in the friends submitted area! They are all class though and I enjoy them all
November 30th, 2006 at 2:53 am
7:35 my mobile phone’s alarm starts screaming
7:40 shower
7:43 quick email and rss
7:55 eating
8:10 going to school(I’m a lucky bastard sine my school is like 5 minutes away from my home :D)
November 30th, 2006 at 3:31 am
7.00 Aurora wakes me up
7.05 Read my emails and RSS Feeds
7.10 Change iTunes song, download podcasts
7.15 Breakfast
7.30 Shower
7.50 - 8.10 Check TV Show torrents. Have a look at blog stats and think of ways to improve it :P
8.15 Go to school
November 30th, 2006 at 5:26 am
HAHA I cannot go without reading emails and rss in the morning :-).
6:40 am - Wake Up
6:45 am - Emails and RSS
6:55 am - Shower/Teeth/etc.
7:05 am - Dress
7:10 am - More computer!
7:20 am - Go to school.
I don’t eat breakfast because school starts at 7:35 am and I have lunch at 10:19 am, which is the average time I eat breakfast during summer!
November 30th, 2006 at 5:48 am
Tell me what you think of Aurora, Josh. I think you’ll like the fact that it not only wakes your Mac from sleep mode, but from a completely off, powerless state too. I put off my Mac each night and Aurora wakes it up in the morning. It even works with the lid of my MBP closed. My MBP’s lid is always shut since I use an external monitor.
I quickly browse through my digg submissions. If I only want to see which ones have made it to the homepage, I go directly to my homepage’d stories page.
What do you mean by “they are all class”?
I’m glad you enjoy them though! Means a lot to me that somebody is paying attention and my hours of ‘digging’ aren’t going unnoticed :-)
November 30th, 2006 at 7:09 am
Hey even i miht take that suggestion of using an application like awaken to wake me up, a friend bought it for me and iv neva used it thx for the idea (even tho its meant to be for glenn)
November 30th, 2006 at 9:07 am
5:47 - watch alarm goes off
6:00 - really awake
6:15 - Breakfast/sportscenter (closest thing to running)
6:30 - shower
6:50 - get dressed (yes, i take 20 min showers, i fall asleep if you must know)
7:00 - leave for school (in a car, of course, if i were to take the bus , i’d have to be eating breakfast @ like 5:00)
7:26 - school starts
so no time for the computer until 6pm , or in my case, regretting/remembering my stupid broken ibook. or resenting my stupid notbroken pc.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:08 am
oh yeah, and glenn, my kindergarten didn’t even start @ nine! you lucky blogger!
November 30th, 2006 at 9:24 am
6:00 - Alarm goes off, I walk across the room and turn it off
6:30 - Alarm goes off again, I check to see if it’s 6:30 (*sob*) and turn it off
6:32 - All dressed, do the usual (Restroom, brush teeth, etc)
6:45 - Eat a quick breakfast
6:57 - Leave for the school bus
8:00 - School starts
Bah, I wish I could have school at 9…
December 1st, 2006 at 2:47 am
@ indraneel
7.26 ?? That’s early.
And I’m complaining about 7.40..
lol.
December 1st, 2006 at 9:47 am
7:00 - Wake up to my phone alarm and hit the snooze button
7:10 - alarm goes off again and i get up
7:11 - Have a relaxing bath
7:30 - get dressed and go on pc( i wish i had a mac)
8:00 - Do my hair
8:05 - Have breckfast and a glass of ribeana
8:15 My m8 comes and we go on the xbox 360
8:30 i brush my teeth
8:45 We leave for school
8:50 We get to school
9:00 School starts
I dont go for a run in the mornings because i can never get up in time, i think ill have to go to bed earlier, when i get in from school at 4:00 i get changed and go for a run
December 1st, 2006 at 10:45 pm
@ Smaran: By all class I mean that all the stories you submit are ones that I’d like to read and ones that appear in my Newsfire folders. Maybe I’ll just replace that with you as my newsreader ;-)
First run with Aurora - didn’t go well. I don’t know whether I set the prefs wrong, but I didn’t have Aurora open when I put the Mac to deep sleep. I’m going to try it again tonight because my test runs went fine.
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:54 am
@ Josh: You couldn’t replace NewsFire with me, but there is a way for you to replace all your RSS feeds with one of my Google-powered private master-feeds. Sadly, I don’t give them out :-P
(Glenn, it would be cool if you turned on smileys in the WordPress options. They look better than colons and P’s.)
I’ve never tried using Aurora with Deep Sleep. If it doesn’t work, why don’t you e-mail Jonas (the developer) and suggest that he add that feature. His e-mail address is posted on the Aurora site.
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:06 pm
6:00am - Wake up to a nice song with Alarm Clock (app)
6:02am - get back in bed, snooze
6:07am - parents tell me to go eat breakfast
6:11am - I’m on a stool eating cereal.
6:20am - finished BF, snooze a bit more ;)
6:27am - brush my teeth & take a shit
6:40am - get dressed for school (uniform, ugh)
6:50am - sit down and check RSS on my Mac, check forums, etc.
6:35am - 7:15am - my carpool arrives and I leave for school
7:40am - I’m at school, doing homework, chilling…
7:52am - Run to my locker and get the books
7:57am - Sit down in my Civics class :)
8:00am - bell rings
:D, too detailed?
November 9th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
7.00 Phoen alarm rings
[follows ever 5minutes on snooze]
7.30 get up turn on PC
7.35 Head for shower
7.45 det dressed and check emails
7.50 head down for cup of tea
8.00 head fo rbus for college
8.20 get into town
8.45 gets on bus to college
9.10 Arives at college
4.00 Finishes college, gets nesecasry busses
5.10 gets home has dinner
5.30 gets up stairs turns on pc
6.00 watch simpsons
6.30 Complete nught by whatever i have planned!
November 9th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
A few people are saying the stay up to 2ish im the same, its a techy thing i reckon, glenn to much of a writer to understand!