02 April 2009

Cycle of Life

Guys, I'm just curious -- What are the three or five things you do first as soon as you arrive in your respective offices? Or for freelancers, as soon as you wake up or are in the mood to start working? Or for everyone, before SOMETHING. :-)

Here's mine (before I start working):
  1. Clean my PC and the surrounding vicinity. And by surrounding vicinity, I only mean half-a-meter radius form my PC's monitor.
  2. Make a cup of coffee.
  3. Check/answer mails, visit my blogs/blogger friends/news.
  4. If in the mood, write a post or sub-post (hi, mordsith!). If not, then, #5.
  5. Take a sip of my now-not-so-warm coffee, deep breath, and convince myself: X, you live to work, you are a slave, you are not paid to dream. Work, work, work.

Then, I start working. How about you guys? Care to share your routine?

9 comments:

Rico said...

1. Coffee (or hot Ovaltine)!
2. Put a jacket on. Sobrang lamig dito.
3. Check/reply e-mail.
4. Pag merong assignment(s), gagawa. Pag wala, try magsulat.
5. Check ng Reader and blog hop.

zarine said...

1. check if my area is impeccably clean

2. check my organizer to see current deadlines

3. answer all unread e-mails

4. arrange my files and project specs in the order that I will need them for the day

5. ask my boss for a list of errands to do for the day


Ooops! I'm a scatterbrain. I thought it's still April 1. Heh he.

Honestly,

1. daydream about books
2. daydream about badminton
3. daydream about movies/series
4. daydream about blogs
5. daydream about daydreaming

..but don't tell anyone ;)

witsandnuts said...

Dust off my area, especially my laptop

Check missed calls to my local phone

Check company email and my gmail

Check messages to my roaming phone

Check Freakonomics, NY Times and Inquirer

Plurk

Google reader

Magpahanda ng avocado shake sa mga office tea/coffee boys

TPS said...

1. Bukas PC. Tidy up a bit.
2. Kikay stuff as restroom. Hilamos, suklay, pulbos, suklay uli (buhaghag kase buhok ko)
3. Basa emails. 4 and 5 and so on depend on the mails I get.
If things are great, I proceed with work na.
If things are greater, I surf all day. Hahaha!
One other thing that I do everyday at work, I call home around noon and check on Sharkteeh.

princess_dyanie said...

1. clean work area or my so called happy place ;)

2. check emails (personal and office)

3. prepare ng food sa tabi ko haha

4. sign in sa YM hehe

5. pag wala masyado trabaho, sufr ng kaunti

6. pag wala trababo, surf all day! haha :P

kg said...

1. Download file and open all applications needed [dictonaries, AMA, ISSN, and the like].

2. Perform preliminaries on the file, in short, macros.

3. Check e-mail and google reader.

4. Check blogs.

5. File na.

he! he! hope our supervisors are not reading this! :)

Anonymous said...

at least you clean LOL here's what i do upon waking up:

1. check my phone
2. look if my cat is awake
3. check my blog

LOL it sounds like i have a dream life LOL

onyxx said...

since i usually take my first meal (of the day) in the office, i guess it's pretty obvious what my top priority is :).
2. clear/rearrange leftover trash (if any)
3. take out my phone or mp3 player and psyche myself up for what lies ahead
4. check what's on my "urgent" list
5. peek [discreetly] at my blogs and/or check news headlines

sheng said...

When i get to the office, i always dust off and tidy my turf, i really don't like working in a dirty table. Then i turn on my computer, check emails and blog comments, arrange manuscripts and read them and read and read to the last hour because that's what i get paid for: read!