I hear the time of the starry sky/ Turning over at midnight

[dolorosa_12]

Day 20 – Your morning routine
Wow, I can't believe I'm up to the 20th day already! Today's topic seems a lot easier than the last couple, that's for sure.

My morning routine is pretty straightforward. At around 7.30, I get up and go for an hour-long run. (When it's the heat of midsummer, I get up at 6.50 instead.) Then I come home, have a shower and dry my hair (which takes ages as although my hair isn't very thick, there's a lot of it) and brush my teeth. I usually don't eat breakfast these days so after a quickish whip around the internet, I head off to the department and work on my thesis until about midday.

On Saturdays, this routine is slightly different. During term-time, I work the morning shift in the English faculty library from 10am, so I'm there. During the holidays, I tend to sleep in a bit longer.

On Sundays, after the running and getting ready, I do chores: laundry and shopping for food at the markets. After the chores are done, I Skype with Mum for about an hour.

In the winter, it's too dark to run in the morning, so I get up slightly later, come home from the department at midday and run then.

And that is my morning routine. I could also have said that my morning routine includes being online on #btts talking about anything and everything (since I tend to be there until 1 or 2am), but I thought that was stretching the definition of 'morning'.



Day 21 – Your job and/or schooling
Day 22 – Something that upsets you
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – Your sleeping habits
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your favorite foods/drinks
Day 30 – Your aspirations

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm totally the last person who should be dispensing lifestyle advice to anyone, but of course I'm going to do it anyway. EAT BREAKFAST. You are clearly a morning person, so you have even less excuse than the rest of us for skipping it. You'd be much better off (nutritionally, metabolically etc) abstaining from food, meals or otherwise, at pretty much any time other than the morning - as I'm sure you already know. If you don't like breakfast-y foods, just contravene of our silly cultural norms and eat non-breakfasty food instead - salad, leftovers (curries IMO are especially good..), just fruit by itself, rice covered in soy sauce, whatever.

Other than that you seem to have an awesomely good routine which I'm immensely envious of.

Oh, and since I'm on a massive trend with nitpicking lately (please feel free to tell me to get bent at any point :P) - your choice of punctuation makes it read like Skyping your mother is a chore. Since she's a journalist and all, if she reads your Livejournal its the kind of thing she might notice ;-)

- Jordan

[anya-1984.livejournal.com]

LOL Jordan, that is definitely the first time I've heard you give lifestyle advice! I didn't realise you were such a proponent of breakfast! Makes me think we should have fed you better in the village!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I ever went hungry in my days of uni-bumming, Anna...

I'm a very strong *theoretical* proponent of sensible metabolic and circadian rhythm management - the timing of when to exercise, eat and sleep (which is at least as critical to get right as quantity and quality.) This is because my circadian rythms are about as shot to pieces as they get, with the rather serious consequences this has entailed. So I tend to reguarly get a lot of advice from highly talented health professionals reinforcing the importance of this stuff; its probably more drilled into my head than the chain rule by this point.

Having said that, I'm often not actually very good at it in practice. Did I mention my non-existant circadian rhythms already?

Still, anyone capable of going for a run before 7:00 is capable of ensuring they eat something before midday. Or to put it bluntly, do as I say, not as I do :P

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

I know, I know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and all that. The problem is that I never feel hungry until about 11am, and by that point I want to be settled in to my thesis-work, not waiting around at home until breakfast. The solution, of course, would be to bring food with me to the department.

I will fix that, since I love Skyping with my mum and it is certainly in no way a chore. (Hi, Mum!)