7:25AM – leave for School #1 of the day, a high school on the West Side
8:05AM – arrive at school and set up projector/laptop/computer lab, since I’ll only have 45 minutes with the students, as I have to jet to School #2
8:30AM – building upon Photography 101 workshop I led a few weeks ago, I teach them how to sign up for and post to our blog
9:25AM – oy, late! I meant to leave at 9:15 but the kids and teacher have so many questions and are so enthusiastic about the project, I find myself staying late. Such a nice change from teaching yesterday! What a difference working computers make.
9:49AM – arrive at School #2 of the day, my alternative high school on the South Side, just before the bell
9:55AM – have one student doing Final Cut Pro video editing, and the rest I teach Live Type, software to create animated text; always a constant struggle to teach effectively with ten students and two computers
11:25AM – on the highway, homeward bound
Noon – fast lunch; recharge flip-cams for this afternoon; answer emails; learn fun news, I’m profiled on one of my favorite “leave behind the 9 to 5 world!” websites, Escape the City
1:10PM – off to School #3 on the West Side, where I’m making a video on Australia with second graders, and a video on the school with middle-schoolers; déjà-vu as I take the same route I traveled at 7:25 this morning
4:05PM – take a call on the drive home with potentially horrible news regarding one of my projects, but decide to not freak out yet, as there’s a chance it’ll work out; why dwell in “what if?”; gets you nowhere but insanity.
4:40PM – answer emails; work on Fear Experiment
5:05PM – make myself go to the gym, though I’d much rather take a nap
6:10PM – shower, get place ready for improv rehearsal
6:30PM – eat dinner standing at my kitchen island, which is how it seems I eat every meal these days
6:40 – improvisers start to arrive; they all stand around my island and watch me eat
7PM – rehearsal
10PM – rehearsal ends; back to work
11:46PM – finishing penning my blog post, would like to write “midnight – in bed” but I don’t want to lie and I think that’d be a lie
