Beginning My Day in the Evening

This is NOT a tale of getting up late.

An efficient day should begin with a perusal of the various upcoming events in one's life, a sampling, if you will, of the smorgasborg of delights and trials in the current waking cycle. I, however, abhor fish. Hence, my day generally begins with a blind scampering towards the physics department - somewhat like a zombie mouse. I then spend the remainder of the day staring at a computer screen - somewhat like a zombie, ja? Interestingly, my level of interest in said screen almost always varies in a certain pattern - which is quite contrary to expectation. Instead of decreasing over time, my interest level rises as the hours pile up...until, as the Sun casts its last mournful photons over the horizon, I reach a point of pure invigoration - a place where the work is both interesting and stimulating. My mind fully recovers from the morass of the morning and I am able to think straight once more.

Of course, all this means - in practice - is that I am able to distract myself with greater efficiency. I am able maintain an effective doublethink concerning work: while distracted, I convince myself of my awe-inspiring focus, of my intention to dive headfirst into a fearsome mass of work, and sort it out by sheer, overwhelming mental force.

Invariably, this is a lie. And hence, we can say with certainty that the increase of mental faculty does not, in fact, increase productivity.

Take this very moment as an example.

After having a solid meal of rice and garlic (fucking gourmet, mate), I'm back in the physics department. The walk here was full to the bursting with intentions and plans - mostly to do with calibrations, CLEAN deconvolutions, quasars and the various combinations of these. I was pumped to sit down and damned well spew out information. Instead, I am now typing out this ridiculously stupid post and browsing several websites. One of these is upcoming.org, a most useful site for looking up future events - which is where this spiel started, ja?

In conclusion: I am not efficient.

(and this post proves it)