Tom's Argonne Schedule

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As government workers, here is the average schedule here at Argonne.

  "[W]e have a very busy schedule --"
  "At 8 o'clock we get up, and then we spend
  "From 8 to 9 daydreaming.
  "From 9 to 9:30 we take our early midmorning nap.
  "From 9:30 to 10:30 we dawdle and delay.
  "From 10:30 to 11:30 we take our late early morning nap.
  "From 11:00 [sic] to 12:00 we bide our time and then eat lunch.
  "From 1:00 to 2:00 we linger and loiter.
  "From 2:00 to 2:30 we take our early afternoon nap.
  "From 2:30 to 3:30 we put off for tomorrow what we could have done today.
  "From 3:30 to 4:00 we take our early late afternoon nap.
  "From 4:00 to 5:00 we loaf and lounge until dinner
  "From 6:00 to 7:00 we dillydally.
  "From 7:00 to 8:00 we take our early evening nap, and then an hour before we go to bed at 9:00 we waste time.
  "As you can see, that leaves no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we'd never get nothing done."
  "You mean you'd never get anything done," corrected Milo.
  "We don't want to get anything done," snapped another angrily; "we want to get nothing done, and we can do that without your help."

If you don't recognize this schedule, Read a book! (preferably The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.)

Actually, my daily schedule is more like this:

0720 alarm goes off
0810 wake up
0815 groggily eat breakfast or shower (depending on evening schedule)
0830 realize I'm late and start walking to work
0840 arrive at work (check e-mail, etc.)
1200-1300 lunch
1300-1700 do some more of that work stuff
1700 walk home (or stay late to work more)
1730-1830 watch Simpsons / eat supper
1830 (Tues) get groceries
-2200 read / socialize / watch TV / other
2200 watch 3rd episode of Simpsons (OK, so I don't usually watch all 3.)
2245 evening walk / sky-watching 2345 shower
0000 read / bed
0100 D'oh! forgot the alarm

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