Completely unrelated topics, but they're quickies:

Yesterday was cold (and I'm sure my definition of that term will slide steadily down the mercury pole as the months roll on, but after 6 weeks in the 80s, it's cold). I figured it was mid-forties since, as a California wuss, that's what I would call cold. I only knew that my tech-jacket wasn't doing a good enough job in concert with my t-shirt at keeping the chill out, and an added sweatshirt only made things okay.

I didn't realize how cold it was until I went to my car after I was done with classes to find that the beaded droplets of rain on the hood, roof, trunk, windows, and windshield weren't the happy, liquid water they appeared to be, but were now a million tiny igloo squatters.

Catching me by surprise, it also caught me without my ice scraper which was (intelligently enough (as in, not at all)) back in my apartment, where it's nice and warm.

Okay, so it's getting colder around these parts, when cars freeze during an October afternoon.

Now, on to sleep. I'm tempted to say I haven't been getting enough of it, only I sort of have been, measured in aggregate.

Deposits into the sleep bank this week:

• Sunday: 3 hours
• Monday: 4 hours
• Tuesday: 10 hours
• Wednedday: 2 hours
• Thursday: 10 hours
• Average: 5.8 hours

Okay, so just under 6 hours probably doesn't sound like 'enough sleep' but it's what I lived on all last year at Yahoo... Still, I'm pretty sure the bank charges a commission whenever I don't pay the minimum daily balance, and their overdraft fines are pretty steep.

I was talking to Andrew last night about some projects I want to do, and he asked me where I'd find the time. I've rediscovered, as I discivered while doing the Trainblog last year, that the best way in the world not to procrastinate, or to make time for things you otherwise wouldn't do, is to make a regular schedule, and incorporate that thing into that schedule. It was easy to write 600 words a day when I was at Yahoo because writing was just the thing that I did when I was on the train, part of my daily process.

So basically I have to create a new daily process. So many of the things I do on a daily or weekly basis here are on my own, with no formal time or people dependencies, which means they don't get done until there is a time dependency or person dependency. This isn't good because it leaves me feeling like I have nothing to do until I suddenly have everything to do. Heck, even sleep has regulalry been postponed until 2 or 3am, simply because I have nothing, in my head or out of it, tha tells me that I should be going to sleep before midnight (well, there's common sense, but that's just a passenger in the backseat. Sadly, it may be the same passenger who's penning this very post, so we'll just have to hope that it can nudge instinct in the shoulder and tell her that it's my turn to drive.) Of course, I have to wake up at 7 to make it to class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so there's a dependency that results in the short night. On the other hand, if I had a dependency to go to sleep by a certain time, but didn't have one to wake up, I'd be grand.

This weekend's a good test. I have three days with virtually no time-anchored events, but a lot of things that need to be done. I think one of the first things is to map out what a Kevin day should look like, with slots for all the things I deem important, and try living on a schedule.

I don't see how it couldn't be worth it, considering that even breaking out of my planned schedule would feel like a guilty pleasure, while regular procrastination, because there's just too much to do to know where to start, is onthe empty side.

It's all a matter of intention.