To summarize: I lack a work/life balance.

Maybe it’s the fact that I have kind of over-committed myself to things as of late. Let’s examine just how many hours per week of my life goes into various things… this is in an ideal world, of course.

• Work at SFU: 40 hours (8 hours a day for 5 days a week)
• Transit to and from work: 10 hours (1 hour each way for 5 days a week)
• Scouts: 10 hours (2 hours for the meeting, 1 hour for the pre/post meeting stuff, 1 hour a day for logistical planning)
• Sleep: 56 hours (8 hours a day for 7 days a week – an ideal figure)
• Church: 1.5 hours
• Work at Appnovation: 21 hours (3 hours a day)

Hours in a week: 168.

Hours I spend doing stuff: 138.5

Hours I have free: 29.5

Note that the above figure of 29.5 hours does not include time spent on doing things that are necessary, like making food, washing dishes, doing laundry, taking a shower/bath, and so on so forth, since these are variable. Since parents are out of town as of this writing, I will need to fend for myself with these things. So let’s say it takes..

• 1 hour for the morning routine, done daily (includes brushing my teeth, washing my face, shower, breakfast, washing the dishes; optional of course)
• 1.5 hours for dinner, done daily (making, eating, and cleaning up)
• 3 hours for laundry (includes putting the clothes in the washer, after doing some cleanup on messes, hanging, ironing, placement of clothes after they are clean)
• 2 hours for grocery shopping

Should we add these up, then there goes another 22.5 hours, which leaves…… 7 hours and as a result, cutting into various different things in the routine to make up for the lost time, like sleep, skipping breakfast, and so on. Obviously, this will hurt me in the long run, so I need to make changes before it’s too late.

Technically, I can do the Appnovation work on the commute, but that means:

1. I need to bring my dad’s laptop with me on a daily basis until I get mine shipped (it’s still waiting for parts as of this writing.. wow)
2. I really only merge around 5 hours, since around 30 minutes of each trip is on an actual transit vehicle; the rest of it is walking. It really depends on which routes I use to go home though.

So given all this, I will need to make some changes or else if I do actually manage to follow through on this schedule, I would go insane due to not being able to pursue my own interests and be a bit free for a bit. And to think that I will be taking one class (JAPN 200) next semester, which by an ideal schedule means 12 hours gone (2 hour tutorials, 2 times a week, followed by 8 hours for studying, if you follow the class time to study time formula where for every hour of instructional time, you study for at least 2 hours).

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