Daily Routines

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by carrie721

*i don't do these things alone.

Hush yo' mouth, I know how those pictures were taken. You're good with that timer button.

[chelluversu]

Originally Posted by Zombie

Oh, you, too! Would like to hear what you think, as well. You replied when I was sending my last one in, lol.

85 mins isn't actually that long after you get use to it actually feels normal..back in middle school the classes were all 1 hr and now 1 hr seems so short. my first period is an hour and we hardly have enough time to get anything done..ever (not that im complaining because i really hate that teacher). the first high school i went to the hrs were a little different and were all the same length so we had to stay in school 50 minutes longer than i do now.

I have 7 classes altogether with Spanish as my homeroom so i have to go there everyday. the classes alternate between even days (1246) and odd days (1357) but at the first high school i went to, in berkley, mondays were "speed days" meaning that we went to every class on that day, tuesdays were even days, wednesday odd, thursday even, etc.. but on every first monday of the month we had late start speed days (why? i have no idea) so we went to school at 10: 15am. At the school i go to now, every wednesday is a flex day meaning that we go to our first period for 10 mins and then we "flex out" to whatever class we need extra help in (we have to have a pass to that class) but if we dont need extra help we go to the class we are scheduled to go to for that flex period for 45 minutes. At my old school in berkley we had a study hall period on odd days which was exactly the same as the flex periods i have now.

But i do know that there are some schools that don't have block scheduling at all. My sister's high school had the same scheduling as middle school where we went to the same class every single day. =\

[nailatixela]

It's interesting reading how everyones classes are set up. At my school, we have 4 classes from Aug to Jan, and 4 new classes from Feb to June. Each class is 90 minutes long, and they go in the same order everday. I like it this way. In middle school the order of the classes changed and I really don't see much benefit for that. It seems like my school is holding us too long now after reading your schedules! My school also starts at the crack of dawn, I get up at 5:55 every school morning.

[holidayroad]

At my high school, we took eight subjects, but had only 7 classes a day. The system was confusing. The days were day 0 through day 7. On day 0, you had the first 7 classes on your schedule. On days 1 through 7, you had an alternate class during the period that coincided with the day (example Day 1, alternate class for 1st period, Day 2, alternate class for 2nd period, and so on.) Classes were 54 minutes long. Lunch was 20 minutes. (I graduated in 1992)

[ButterCookie]

Woah, school in America is soooo different that school in England.

I'm in college and we go there for two years aged 16 - 18, studying 4 subjects (Sometimes 5)

I have a morning routine but not an evening one. Every morning, I wake up at 6.15 to shower and wash my hair. Then I go back to my room (sometimes going on the computer) to dress. Then I put my makeup on and dry/style my hair in that order. at 7.30 I go downstairs and have some cereal, tea and toast before leaving to catch my train at 8.03

[skcin]

Damned if I remember much of high school, but I'm pretty sure my schedule was similar to Zombie's (8 periods, about 45 minutes each, lunch may have beeen a bit shorter.)

Although in Jr. year I was in vocational school already, so I had normal HS classes all morning, then got like a 90 min. break to drive to the vocational school (which translated into lunch at Burger King every day for Bacon Double Cheeseburgers & cigarettes ) My afternoons ran longer than "normal" high school and I was in 1 class (health assistant.)

Sr. year was the opposite - nursing (LPN) school all morning, "normal" high school in the afternoon.


So. Now. Weekdays. Get up around 6am. Let dog out. Feed dog & cats. Work out (cardio) for 30 min. Breakfast (usually either cereal, milk & fruit or a bagel with PB.) Pack lunch. Shower & dress. Get baby, change her & bring her downstairs. Bottle then cereal for her. Leave for work by 8:30am. Work 9am - 5pm, lunch around 1pm. Usually home by 5:15pm if I get out on time. Eat dinner (which hopefully husband has already prepared) and feed baby again. Hang out with fam, read paper/mail, watch TV. In bed by 10:30pm hopefully.

I take the 2 weekend days off from working out. "Sleep in" til 7:30 or so.

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by chelluversu

85 mins isn't actually that long after you get use to it actually feels normal

I guess that makes sense if you are used to it. It just seems crazy long to me. Of course, I never wanted to be in school at all - it was a special sort of hell to me - so that may explain my misgivings about the idea.

Originally Posted by skcin

Damned if I remember much of high school, but I'm pretty sure my schedule was similar to Zombie's (8 periods, about 45 minutes each, lunch may have beeen a bit shorter.)

Although in Jr. year I was in vocational school already, so I had normal HS classes all morning, then got like a 90 min. break to drive to the vocational school (which translated into lunch at Burger King every day for Bacon Double Cheeseburgers & cigarettes ) My afternoons ran longer than "normal" high school and I was in 1 class (health assistant.)

Oh man, you were lucky. Our tech was literally a 5 (10 if you walked reeeeeally slow) minute walk from the back door of the high school. No going to Burger King.

But it's funny that I do mostly remember my years of high school by when/how I could get in a cigarette. Freshman year was easy as pie, just step out the door, no one cares. But by senior year, they'd chased us completely off campus into the woods across the street and tried to give us inside and junk for it. Oy. Morons.

Originally Posted by skcin

I take the 2 weekend days off from working out. "Sleep in" til 7:30 or so.

Rebel, rebel!

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by skcin

Damned if I remember much of high school, but I'm pretty sure my schedule was similar to Zombie's (8 periods, about 45 minutes each, lunch may have beeen a bit shorter.)

Although in Jr. year I was in vocational school already, so I had normal HS classes all morning, then got like a 90 min. break to drive to the vocational school (which translated into lunch at Burger King every day for Bacon Double Cheeseburgers & cigarettes ) My afternoons ran longer than "normal" high school and I was in 1 class (health assistant.)

Sr. year was the opposite - nursing (LPN) school all morning, "normal" high school in the afternoon.


So. Now. Weekdays. Get up around 6am. Let dog out. Feed dog & cats. Work out (cardio) for 30 min. Breakfast (usually either cereal, milk & fruit or a bagel with PB.) Pack lunch. Shower & dress. Get baby, change her & bring her downstairs. Bottle then cereal for her. Leave for work by 8:30am. Work 9am - 5pm, lunch around 1pm. Usually home by 5:15pm if I get out on time. Eat dinner (which hopefully husband has already prepared) and feed baby again. Hang out with fam, read paper/mail, watch TV. In bed by 10:30pm hopefully.

I take the 2 weekend days off from working out. "Sleep in" til 7:30 or so.

I keep forgetting that you have a baby now. How old is she?

[skcin]

^ She's almost 5 months.

Originally Posted by Zombie

Oh man, you were lucky. Our tech was literally a 5 (10 if you walked reeeeeally slow) minute walk from the back door of the high school. No going to Burger King.

But it's funny that I do mostly remember my years of high school by when/how I could get in a cigarette. Freshman year was easy as pie, just step out the door, no one cares. But by senior year, they'd chased us completely off campus into the woods across the street and tried to give us inside and junk for it. Oy. Morons.

We were lucky & we knew it. Good times.

And word on the cigarette bird. It's a different world now. We used to sneak cigs in the bathrooms for god's sake - doubt you can attempt that anymore.

[sara1998]

Originally Posted by skcin

And word on the cigarette bird. It's a different world now. We used to sneak cigs in the bathrooms for god's sake - doubt you can attempt that anymore.

Oh, man, we used to smoke in the bathroom all the damn time. There was a security guard at my high school that worked with my mom (at night) and she looked out for me. We'd hear Gloria coming in, and she'd say "Maria, get yo ass outta here, giiirl! You bet not let that dean find yo ass! Get on, now..." And she'd walk me to class sometimes. I just loved her because she never turned me in, just got me on my way. Plus, she was just a sweetheart. They don't dare attempt that today because there's smoke alarms in the bathrooms in my daughters high school, and there's police, not security, that would happily take you down, write you a ticket, and make you appear in court.

[holidayroad]

My first two years of High School,(89,90) you could smoke if you were 16 and over. They had a special area. After that, the law changed to 18 being the legal age to buy cigs. I never smoked, so it didn't matter to me

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by Zombie

So would you look down on me if I did those things alone? If only I had some awesome people to twirl in shawls to RAL with near me. Alas. There is only me.

rock on with your bad self.

Not the drinking til dawn and hitting the diner part, though. I don't go to diners alone, that's just sad.

hahaha. i go to diners alone, but not drunk.

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by skcin

^ She's almost 5 months.

We were lucky & we knew it. Good times.

And word on the cigarette bird. It's a different world now. We used to sneak cigs in the bathrooms for god's sake - doubt you can attempt that anymore.

Awww, a baby!

No, I don't think you can do that anymore. My freshman year of high school, we'd just step outside the door and no one cared. We also used to congregate in the corner of the parking lot before school. Sophomore year, they chased us over the guardrail and onto the curb. Junior year, they chased us across the street. By my senior year, we had to go into the woods or the rent-a-cops they'd hired would write us up and try to give us inside.

But even then, we had one rent-a-cop named Bowser that would come INTO the woods and try to bust us, so we moseyed over to the cemetary that was across the street and kind of catty-corner to the school.

And I **** you not, dude was, like, wearing a ghillie suit or something sometimes. He was old and crotchety and would hide in bushes to try to bust us, and then leap out all, "I'VE GOT YOU NOW!" We'd scatter to the four winds, and since he was old, he couldn't run fast enough to catch all of us. You didn't have to run the fastest, you just had to not be the slowest. I liked to think of it as good practice for the coming zombie apocalypse.

We had a joke, though, that if you saw a jaggerbush skittering in a zig-zag pattern across the road (y'know, like the cartoons where someone's hiding in a bush or a barrel and is trying to sneak up on someone else by tip-toeing about when they think you're not looking?) you should huck your backpack at it and run.

Ahhhh, memories.

Originally Posted by sara1998

Oh, man, we used to smoke in the bathroom all the damn time.

I dunno what it's like in my old school now, but I assume it's similar. We technically got our rent-a-cops when Columbine happened, which is a tale of woe and hilarity that still amuses me to this day (not what happened at Columbine, but my school's reaction to it, and tangentially, their reaction to me), but I also hear violence up there has gotten really bad, which disconcerts me.

Kids these days, man.

Originally Posted by holidayroad

My first two years of High School,(89,90) you could smoke if you were 16 and over. They had a special area. After that, the law changed to 18 being the legal age to buy cigs. I never smoked, so it didn't matter to me

Haha. I consider my smoking a public health service. As in, if I didn't do it, there'd be a lot of bodies on the floor. It keeps my homicidal mania down to a dull roar.

So I've made a career out of knowing where and when I can smoke - particularly when it comes to airports and suchlike. Go ahead, ask me about any U.S. airport - I can probably tell you if they have a smoking lounge still or a bar that allows smoking, where it's located, and how long it will take me to get from the United gates (I usually only fly United due to relative cheapness & my miles card) to said smoking area and back for my connector.

Originally Posted by carrie721

rock on with your bad self.

hahaha. i go to diners alone, but not drunk.

Well, sometimes my daughter will join me, but whatever. I'ma do the Gypsy video prance around my house if'n I wanna.

Also, I lied about going to diners alone. I haven't done it in ages, but I used to do it when I had the chance when the kids were younger. I'd leave them with their dad every so often on the excuse that I had to go grocery shopping, and bringing groceries and babies on the bus is such a hassle.

Which it is, but also, "OMG, I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM ANYMORE, HALP!"

Then I'd sneak into a restaurant somewhere for a half an hour and have a snack and read a book and breathe. It kept me semi-sane.

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by Zombie

So I've made a career out of knowing where and when I can smoke - particularly when it comes to airports and suchlike. Go ahead, ask me about any U.S. airport - I can probably tell you if they have a smoking lounge still or a bar that allows smoking, where it's located, and how long it will take me to get from the United gates (I usually only fly United due to relative cheapness & my miles card) to said smoking area and back for my connector.

i really could have used your knowledge on my layover in godforsaken milwaukee.

Well, sometimes my daughter will join me, but whatever. I'ma do the Gypsy video prance around my house if'n I wanna.

Also, I lied about going to diners alone. I haven't done it in ages, but I used to do it when I had the chance when the kids were younger. I'd leave them with their dad every so often on the excuse that I had to go grocery shopping, and bringing groceries and babies on the bus is such a hassle.

Which it is, but also, "OMG, I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM ANYMORE, HALP!"

LOL. how old are your kids now?

Then I'd sneak into a restaurant somewhere for a half an hour and have a snack and read a book and breathe. It kept me semi-sane.

i have to do that to keep semi-sane and i don't even have kids.

[sara1998]

Originally Posted by Zombie

Haha. I consider my smoking a public health service. As in, if I didn't do it, there'd be a lot of bodies on the floor. It keeps my homicidal mania down to a dull roar.

I hear ya on that one...