Time audit: first full week

Despite any claims I make about being a hermit, I spent 23 hours just hanging out with people last week.

16 hours on social media, 12 hours on driving.

14ish hours on doing music stuff. (Record-keeping or open mics or anything inside or out of the house.)

8 hours just preparing for things (like, to go to work in the morning or whatnot).

5 hours vegging or journaling.

5 hours dancing... ^^ (I think that includes the potluck.)

That's 83 hours. Of the 168 hours that are in one week. Non-work, non-sleep hours. 50% of my week.


Then there are about 7 categories that are less than 3 hours: church; eating; cleaning; errands; etc. 7% of my week.


Then there's work (27, I am only part-time during non-summer months) and sleep (46). 43% of my week.




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In general, I probably do not have 23 hours each week to hang out. It was an odd week. Plus the hanging out does include some time that should have been allotted to "church" because it's a kinship group.

I also don't have 16 hours to be on social media. F'cripesake. But I think what I'll do is step myself down. Try to get it to an hour a day instead of 2. I've tried cold turkey and other stringent methods and I just go right back. To be honest, just logging the time has helped me to at least stop being on Facebook after midnight, which is pretty huge.

I need to start thinking of prep time for work as part of a time block that also includes work and the driving time. It's so strange how my mind currently isn't wired this way.