A Day In The Life

I always really enjoy reading other skaters blogs and about their training. I also read other non derby people's blogs too. One of my favorite posts in the blogesphere (?) is actually probably one of the most simple and probably not very exciting. A recount of a full day in the life of Kathleen Shannon of Braid Creative.

Now, I realize this might totally be creeper of me, seeing as how I know Kathleen through various acquaintances, and I played derby with her in Oklahoma (for a season), but I never was really that close to her. Yet, I read her blog like it's going out of style! I love her style, her aesthetic, her goal busting go getter attitude, and her will to explore. But most of all, I love the fact that she remains so transparent with her audience. Hell, she even once made a blog post about periods! She was my main inspiration for starting a blog, although I'm not as diligent about updating and, well, let's just be honest, I'm not the greatest writer.

But this post. This hourly breakdown of her day. This peek into her, what I see as glamorous, but isn't always so glamorous life really made me want to read more posts like this. It reminded me of Harpers Bazaar's "A Day In the Life" (my favorite being the issue that featured Karl Lagerfeld). I started scouring my already favorite blogs for very similar posts (even exact), but to no avail, couldn't find anything. That's when it hit me! Maybe I should do a series on my blog featuring the daily schedules of others!

Reading these schedules and timelines and getting a better sense of people in their realities makes me feel excited to be alive! We get so stuck in our everyday ways that turn into very mundane activities and routines, but to others, these mundane routines are adventures in life! So where do I go from here? Well, I supposed I could document my day and in the mean time, I supposed I can reach out to some of my favorite people to see if I can feature them.

Who knows what will become of this, or even if I'll be diligent enough to keep up with this project. It's worth a shot though, right?

I'll leave you with this:

6:10 AM: push snooze
6:45 AM: push snooze again
7:01 AM: crawl out of bed long enough to call work to let them know I would be late, and then crawl back into bed because I'm just. not. motivated to go to work!
7:45 AM Finally! I get out of bed, throw on my work clothes, gather my workout gear and head out the door with my bike
8:15 AM log into my computer and then walk to the break room and make some oatmeal sweetened with applesauce (the stupidest breakfast ever), get some coffee, fill my water bottle, and head to a meeting room where I sit and discuss E-Discovery, Endpoint Protection, and Backup software for the next few hours
11:00 AM head down to the gym, put on my workout clothes (I'm very excited because I'm wearing a new sports bra!) put in my ear buds, and head outside. It's plyo day. I feel like puking, and I feel groggy
11:45 AM shower and walk to the cafeteria where I load up on salad greens, onions, tomatoes, roasted garlic, and balsamic vinegar and olive oil (because let's face it, I've been eating a lot of junk lately)
12:00 PM sit at my computer here at work, comment on some facebook statuses while I eat my salad and a can of tuna
12:45ish PM: Start on this post