Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Programming New Rituals

I was putting on some Degree antiperspirant today and I started thinking about all my daily rituals.

Every single day, it goes like this: I get out of bed embarrassingly late, stand over the toilet, swaying back and forth for an eternity, then I walk into the kitchen and I drink a medium-sized glass of water. I go back to my room, find some clothes and take them into the bathroom with me. I turn on the shower, brush my teeth as the water warms up, hop in the shower, wash my hair first, soap down second, shave, rinse, dry, deodorant, dress, done.

Then I wake up my PC, check various Internet thingies, return emails, post messages on various web forums, read some news, and then I start going about my day, whatever it may entail.

Same sequence. Every day. No matter what. Same. Same. Same.

In my mind, every one of those steps is an integral part of my daily start up; each sub-ritual in perfect harmony with the whole. If one single item is missed or performed out of sequence, the whole thing falls apart.

Now that I'm aware of it, I begin to wonder how one might go about hacking into these rituals and rearranging their programming to include something of importance, like say, writing one thousand words of fiction, or maybe, exercising; or both. The problem is, I seem to be logged into my brain under a guest account and I need an Admin password to make any changes to the system.

There must be a work-around, but I haven't had much luck so far.

How about you? Installed anything of importance into your daily rituals lately? How'd you do it?

2 comments:

Alex said...

I'm not very good at that. I tried to start getting up earlier, to get stuff done, of course, and I failed. I get up right before class.

I do manage to check e-mail and play Scramble on Facebook very regularly.

Jed Hunt said...

All of my daily rituals have developed all on their own. It seems impossible to modify them.

Should I warn Michelle about Scramble? Is it the same thing as Scrabulous? She was seriously addicted you know...