Even in Kyoto

Hmm. I don't know how I feel about the new "tags" feature. I shall have to try it out, but I have a feeling that it will go the way of popcultureicon's tags (which are hilarious, by the way).

After the morning excitement about milk in glass bottles, it has been a rather uneventful day. I skipped crew this morning because I was too zombie-like when the alarm went off at 4:30. But I think I have too much energy now, because I'm having one of those stress attacks which result from being too high-strung. It's not a horrible one, just one of those, "omygod I have so many little things to do and bigger things to do and can't do them all at once" type stress attacks. Basically, it's the same thing I always go through whenever I have to switch from being quasi-productive to actually getting stuff done. But I've written more things down on my calendar, so hopefully that will help.

I wish I could be an anal-retentive calendar user, but I'm just not up to it. For instance, I regularly forget to (oh my gosh, I just remembered something else I have to write on my calendar) check my birthday calendar to remember when people were born. So far, that calendar has succeeded in making me feel guilty whenever a birthday passes and I fail to acknowledge it in any way. I'm hoping to eventually build up to a point where I might actually send a card or make a phone call on somebody's birthday. I *have* been a bit better about cards and such recently, but I think it's going to be a temporary improvement. Really, I should send out more cards and letters. I used to be better about that. I guess life got in the way.

Then there are the lists of things I should be working on at school. Instead, I'm writing this and checking my e-mail too frequently (today's tally: 4,862 times). Heh. I need somebody to breathe down my neck or something. Either that or a more regular schedule. Regular schedules always force me to get things done. Something along the lines of:

4:30 am: go to crew
7:00 am: shower
7:30 am: eat breakfast
8:00 am: 20-minute nap (ahh, there's downfall #1...soooo hard to get back out of bed!), then stuff around the house
9:00 am: in the lab, drinking my morning espresso and checking e-mail, figuring out plans for the day
9:30 am: get some reading done
10:00 am: get some research done
12:00: Lunch? More work?
5:00: go home and lounge around the house and do a bunch of housework (why do I feel like I'm always doing housework?)

Ahh, I'm starting to see where the grey areas are.

Well, it's time to go rock climbing, and then 'twill be time for stir-fry with peanut sauce and scallion pancakes (mmmmm...peanut sauce....seriously, sytharin, try the peanut sauce recipe that I posted a while ago), then sleep and repeat.