A day in the life

7:30: alarm goes off
7:35: alarm goes off
7:40: alarm goes off. get up. check weather, news, email.
7:45: bathroom and dress. avoid shaving (possible). avoid clothes (not possible).
7:55: breakfast while making lunch and coffee
7:15: pack up. brush teeth. feed Shark (beta fish). go to car. go back to apartment to get whatever i forgot. go back to car.
7:20: tune ipod. usually a podcast from ROCKHARBOR or Mars Hill Church. "redemptive commuting."
7:50: arrive at cubicle sweet cubicle. check email. plan day.
8:00-6:00: work. about 1/3 research work in cubicle, 1/3 lab work, 1/3 class work. eat lunch while working, but take multiple shorter breaks. research work centers around journal articles. lab work involves subcloning plasmids and growing bacteria and tumor cells (both ironically difficult to keep alive). class work involves facebook, gchat, xkcd, and the occasional textbook.
8:30: coffee
9:00: snack
10:00: meet with advisor. realize i did everything wrong. consider quitting PhD.
11:00: lunch 1
12:00-1:00: hold office hours. encourage nervous students. terrorize overly confident students. try to sound like I know what I'm talking about ("well, that problem is so simple, why don't we try this other one..."). get free food and coffee in exchange for homework answers.
1:30: coffee
2:30: lunch 2
3:30: falling asleep. go for a walk. get coffee. turn on Pandora.
4:00: snack
5:00: plan how I'm going to get a great idea to save the world, start a company, get bought out by J&J, and retire to the south of France.
6:00: realize I can save a day if I transfect some cells now.
7:00: go home. hungry. get dinner. check email.
9:00: talk to girlfriend.
11:00: shower. prayer. read McCollough's 1776. glad i don't live in the 18th century. sleep.
1:00am: wake up to neighbors. again. 1:30: back to sleep.