May Day, Labour Day… the first day of May, and the beginning of what I think of as my holidays. The NUS students are through with one week of exams, and have one more week to go before the term officially ends. My marking has been completed, my lecturer is preparing to submit them now, and all that is left is a postmortem meeting discussing how this semester went.
So, since this is Labour Day, I decided to plan all my doings for May, separated into different categories:
Work
- Attend postmortem meeting for Game Design module. (1/2 day)
- Tidy up files and come up with a coherent filing system to handle multiple semesters of accumulated teaching work. (1/2 day)
- Help out with Arts and Social Sciences Open House on 16th May. (1 day)
- Locate and purchase finger toy for CNM Games Library. (1/2 day)
Total = 2.5 days
Research / Studies
- Check whether my application for Master’s has gone through. (1/2 day)
- Read at least 2 journal papers / articles a week about my proposed research topic to find out about the competition. (4-5 days total)
- Help vet Siti’s thesis if she needs it, and learn how to structure a thesis. (1-2 days)
Total = 7.5 days.
Ministry
- Finish Study of John leader’s training course. (30 hours total)
- Plan and implement Study of John in cell group. (20 hours total)
- Call at least two cell members a week to spend time with them. (8-10 hours total)
- Organise birthday party for two cell members in May (6 hours)
- Organise board games party cum outreach event for NUS students. (6 hours)
- Collect reimbursement for paying for VCF website hosting. (1 hour)
- Sign up for church camp in June. (1 hour)
- Read book on Spiritual Gifts in preparation for next season. (10 hours)
Total = 84 hours = 7 days (assuming 12 hours a day)
Relationships
- Attend PGP CF reunion on 2nd May (6 hours)
- Send birthday card to Val. (3 hours)
- Send email to Wai Pick. (3 hours)
- Pick out presents for Mother’s Day. (1 day)
- Wish the rest of the May babies a happy birthday. (1 hour total)
Total = 2 days.
Hobbies / Projects
- Add Portfolio, past projects and Fanfiction.net link to this website. (6 hours)
- Blog regularly at least 3 times a week. (24 hours total, at least)
- Find artist and finish Wedding Vows project. (5 days)
- Finish writing Planetstorm fanfiction. (1-2 days)
- Decide and reply to monele whether to continue with Royal Explorer project or not. (1/2 day)
Total = 10 days
Leisure
- Finish David Drake’s book “In the Stormy Red Sky” (5 hours total)
- Finish “The Case for the Real Jesus” by Lee Strobel. (5 hours total)
- Finish at least one round of Sid Meier’s Pirates! game. (10 hours)
- Catch up to latest Family Outing episode. (2 days)
- Finish playing Fallout game. (20 hours)
- Finish playing Baldur’s Gate game. (20 hours)
- Watch Cross Game, Hanasekeru Seishounen, Eden of the East and Ristoranto Paradiso anime. (8 – 10 hours total)
- Stay current with various manga series. (12 hours total)
- Read Naval Chronicles of Alan Lewrie series of books. (40 hours total)
Total = 12 days
Summary Breakdown
- Work = 2.5 days
- Research = 7.5 days
- Ministry = 7 days
- Relationships = 2 days
- Projects = 10 days
- Leisure = 12 days
- TOTAL = 41 days (12 hours per day, excluding sleep, meals and daily necessities)
- TOTAL without any leisure time = 29 days.
Hmmm… that’s enough. I think I can do most of these in May, though I’ll probably not be able to complete everything on my leisure list. Actually, chances are I’ll get distracted by something not on this list and waste time here and there. But here’s hoping I should be able to complete at least 90% of the stuff here, which would then clear the boards in time for an equally-heavy list in June.
… Am I doing too much again?
