Day in the Life

A little while ago, L posted an updated flowchart of what her days are like. I'm not an ammy, technically, and I don't really have a regular schedule due to so much traveling, but I tried to make a flow chart anyway. And here it is:

Some explanations-

My commute varies like crazy. Without any traffic, I can get to work from home in 45 minutes and from the barn in 50 minutes. I only get that wonderful drive in the summer in the early mornings (before 9am) because there are no students clogging up the roads early, OR in the fall/winter/spring in the late mornings (after 10am) because there's no beach traffic. Sometimes there is both and I'm fucked.

In the fall/winter/spring before 9am, I have lots of students on the roads and in the summer after 10am is when all those students are going to the damn beach. This means that during the summer, I ride in the evenings and in the fall/winter/spring, I ride in the mornings.

Luckily, pretty much any time I leave work, I can make it either home or to the barn within in an hour. The only exception is on Fridays when I'm going to the barn, I have to remember to take back roads when I get into the town my barn is in because my barn is on the way to LA so everyone clogs up the roads.

TC wants to go to LA and become a Hollywood star

So basically in the summer, I sleep from 11pm to 7am (my natural circadian rhythm) and in the fall/winter/spring, I sleep from 10am to 6am (so I'm always a bit sleep deprived, boo).

Unlike all the awesome barns on the east coast, mine does not grain my horse. On my days off from riding, I still go to the barn either before or after work to feed him. Often then I won't even give him a full day off, and I'll ride him bareback (if it's spring/summer/fall) or something. Also recently I've been traveling a lot so haven't had a lot of days where he gets a day off and I'm around.

This flow chart makes it sound like I go to the gym more than I do. I ride pretty much 6 days a week, and the days TC gets off are mostly days where I have some sort of social outing. Now that it's winter, I really hope to be doing more gym days and being better about letting TC hang out a bit.

This chart also doesn't illustrate how annoying it is to remember what clothes to put on and what clothes to pack. I have definitely arrived at the barn in work clothes and vice versa. I often set an alarm that will tell me what to do in the mornings.

One day I'll live close to my job and horse! Or just be able to work from home once or twice a week. Going to try to get on with that schedule this winter finally.