How do you want something and not want it at the same time? Every morning I wake up, in plenty of time to get ready for work without rushing. Yet every morning, I do things that would cause me to rush to get ready to leave my apartment. With the exception of Saturdays. My sense of time is not grounded in reality when it comes to getting ready for things. I am aware of my inaccurate projection of how long it will take me to do something or drive somewhere, but I still go along with it anyway. Old habits are hard to break.
This is my morning routine: wake up before my alarm goes off at 7:02am. Surf music blogs, CNN, Facebook, and Gmail. When my alarm goes off, snooze it, because I always feel like I might want to take a 15 or 30 minute siesta. While I'm previewing/downloading new tunes I snooze my alarm 1-3 more times. When it is approaching 7:30, I start "getting serious" about wanting to get up, but usually wait until 7:35 before I hop out of bed, plug in the iron, turn on the shower and begin dashing about my apartment getting ready to leave the house at 7:50 (but usually 7:55). I judge how long I've been in the shower by how many songs have come blaring out of the speakers connected to my Airport Express. After 2-2.5 songs I'm drying off and dashing about multitasking, because I think that if I'm doing more than 1 thing then I'm being more efficient (although I know this is not really true either). I then proceed to walk out of the door 3/4 dressed (shirt usually unbottoned, pants almost zipped, shoes maybe tied, nothing tucked in, du-rag on my head but not tied, belt in the loops but not buckled). I complete these tasks while driving on LaBrea and getting on the 10 freeway for a mile because within a mile I know if I should get off and take the streets or not. All the while I am texting my mom or friends "good morning," finding my "ride to work music"- usually a mix between gospel and uptempo r&b/pop tracks, and hangin out on Facebook and other iPhone apps. As I get to work I walk/jog to my office while redirecting/reprimanding students, to make it just in time to write tardy passes. Oh, the irony.
I've made a committment to do more reading, so I've picked up a book that I thought I'd lost a few months ago called The Leadership Challenge. That's my "at work non-fiction read" while Always Running is a text I'm reading with a class. For good measure I'm also paging through How to Win Friends & Influence People. Ahh yes, I also picked up 100 Years of Solitude the other day, I'd like to conquer that one as well. What've I learned so far? The #1 desired quality in a leader is honesty, second only to being future looking, which is followed by a preference for competence. Good thing "on time" didn't make the top 3 hahaha.
Tomorrow's another day.
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