Daily Schedule, September 2008
on September 25, 2008 at 2:04 pmSo, here’s what my daily schedule looks like, trying to keep up with a daily webcomic and day job:
Current weekly schedule:
4:45 am – Dawna wakes me up
5:10 am – On the road to work (My turn to drive)
5:30 am – Try not to die merging on the South bound I-17
5:45 am – Eating breakfast in the car
6:05 am – at work, doing work
11:00 am – Lunch
4:30 pm – drive home (Dawna’s turn to drive)
5:00 – 5:30 am – writing 2 comic scripts on the drive home
6:00 pm – Home (gasp)
6:10 pm – Help make dinner OR check email
7:00 pm – Finishing dinner/hang with family
7:25 pm – Begin creating comic artwork
8:30 pm – Family goes to bed – Say goodnight
9 – 10:30 pm – Finishing up a single comic strip (Making web and eps versions)
10:30 – Sleep
So, it’s kinda intense for me to keep things rolling.
I’m trying my hardest to survive, but it often takes a lot of will to work and not just go to sleep.
I’m going to move to a weekly shipping schedule (Shipping on Saturday every week) so that we don’t mess this schedule up by going to the post office all of the time. When we do that, we’re not getting home until 7:00, and the whole thing get’s botched.
Certainly, I could have it way worse. I DO get to work all day on Friday, so that’s a BIG help. I’ve simply built this schedule into my life, the best that I may.
Sunday, I schedule the next weeks strips, and write all of the individual blog posts. Hopefully, I’ve gotten enough rest that this works out okay.
- Daniel
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You only get 6:15 of sleep a night? Yikes. I can do that for *maybe* a few days, but then I definitely have to sleep in for a few days after that.
Ah, let me clarify.
If I get the comic done at 10:30 (Like on Tuesday of this week) then yes, no sleep.
I’m trying to get them done by about 9:15, if at all possible.
Also, I work 4-tens, so I only have to survive 4 days a week at this pace.
Ah, 4 ten hour days, that makes sense now.
Wow how do you get out the door in 25 minutes in the morning. I am up at 4 15-ish and get out the door at 5:00am. I am also doing 4/10. If I have 6 hours of sleep, I can only do it for a couple of days then I need a full 8 – 9 hours sleep to re-coupe.
Getting out of the door in 25 minutes means that I simply get up, take a fast shower, get dressed, and then get the family in the car. Not having any hair to dry or comb saves a bunch of time, and my wife gets our son dressed.
Usually, I just stagger out to the car, and drive the the local McDonalds for iced coffee potion.
Sometimes we run later too… but not by more than 5-10 minutes.
Yeah, we’re tired of this, after 4 years.
But Ahmil has a much further commute than us (60 miles each way)! So, hat’s off to her/him for surviving THAT! That is a “Monster Commute”!