A day in the life of...

[Innes]

Basically tell us what you do during your average week day. (Or weekend, it doesn't matter).

My average weekday:

07:30 - Alarm (Nickleback)
07:40 - Alarm (Jimmy Eat World - I let this one play a it)
07:50 - Alarm - (Sigur Ros - Defiantly let it play)
08:00 - Alarm - As Above
08:10 - Alarm - As Above
08:20 - Alarm - As Above
08:40 - Meet my mates for school.
08:50 - School - Registration
12:30 - Dinner - Go to the co-op or M&S.
13:10 - School.
15:10 - Finish school. Pad home.
15:20 - See my girlfriend, Yahni. If she pops in. If not (look at 17:00)
till 17:00 - Read emails, check stuff, read.
17:00 - Phone Yahni, if she's not coming in. (And have dinner)
19:00 - Get off the phone (Yes, 2 hours, sue me! I get free calls.)
After that - Generally watch movies, make/design some websites. Go out, etc...
23:00 - Phone Yahni
00:00 - Get off the phone.
Till 02:00 - Watch a movie.
02:00 - Read internet posts, check emails.
02:45 - Cuppa.
03:00 - Homework, coursework etc.. (Sometimes I get to bed at 3 if I have no homework.)
04:00 - bed.

Rinse and repeat.

[DinnyHoon]

12:30 - Dinner - Go to the co-op or M&S.

That's a bit of a posh lunch, is it not? Anywho...

11:00 Wake up, roll over to face laptop, check how the Internet's doing
12.00 Get up
12.01 Stretching (the tired type, not the yoga type)
12.08 Shower
12.18 Emerge from shower
12.20 Cup of tea, find something on Sky+
13.20 Internet time again - sign on to MSN, tell everyone to **** off, watch Youtube videos
14.00 Lunch - super noodles or Subway, depending on how much change I have/how much I crave a meatball marinara
14.30 Another cup of tea, more Sky+
15.00 By now I have an urge to play a game, so I play said game
17.00 More Internet
18.00 Dinner - time for another cup of tea
18.30 Internet
22.00 (My eyes hurt a bit by now) Big Brother
23.00 Internet, featuring Big Brother discussion
00.00 One last cup of tea. If I can be bothered, I'll turn the TV back on and watch whatever's on More4
00.30 Internet (by now I'm in bed)
01.30 I realise that it's getting late. Internet continues
01.35 Sign off of MSN, so people don't message me at 4 in the ****ing morning
02.30 Download 2 episodes of <insert sitcom here>, try to fall asleep watching them
03.15 They were rather gripping episodes of <insert sitcom here>, I'll just watch something boring on iPlayer
03.17 Oh f*ck, I'm back on the Internet. Just one more minute, than I'll sleep
03.18 One minute passes. Just two more minutes...
04.00 God dammit.
04.01 Stick HIGNFY/Graham Norton on iPlayer
04.02 Sleep

NB: Times prior to 18:00 are subject to change, depending on what time I get up.

[Pirate Balloon]

Now i've finished 6th form my average weekday has changed a lot. The only timetable i can say for certain really is this:

10:30 Flat battry alarm which plays a distorted and slowed down In Flames clip
10:45 Phone alarm plays Meshuggah
10:46 Promptly wake up
10:47 Whip computer and hi-fi on
10:48 Music is playing. The kind of loud that's perfect, you can appreciate the full dynamic range without it being annoying
10:49 >25 sit-ups (variations of such) and a few of whatever else i can manage this early
10:50 Make coffee with too much granules, vow never to use that much again, again
11:10 Shower is complete.
11:11 Breakfast - 1x banana
11:12 Do the rounds on the forums
Until 14:59 Play some sort of war game/Do something that's way over-due, like some video editing/Eat cereal/Listen to current favourite genre, band, album, track until it's not my favourite anymore/Get dressed and go out with mates
15:00 Get dressed (or changed) and Run. Faster and further than the previous day, even if it kills me
16:49 Get changed and leave for work
17:05 At work. Late. But sign-in sheet says differently. In my favour.
20:05 Leave work and usually go home, but depending on who was on my shift with me sometimes go the pub or get stoned
Until anywhere between 02:00 - 05:30
Tea (dinner)
Sitcom (Curb Your Enthusiasm recently)
New round of toast & beer inbetween episodes
However many pressups and situps i can manage
Read a modern war themed fiction/non-fiction book, (currently by andy mcnab even though i've read each one like 3 times)
sleep (hopefully!)My average weekday:
3 hours sleep every weekday?

[NeoKubrick]

13:00 - Wake up
13:01 - Go to the toilet
13:02 - Eat some breakfast, depending on what's available, cereal, sausages, brown wholewheat bread
13:30 - Check the 'net in-between listening to something on my MP3 or watching a film, or playing a game
15:00 - PES practice, depending upon what I want to practice, usually half an hour or at a stretch, an hour
16:00 - Check the 'net
17:00 - Hunt for some food downstairs
18:00 - Take out the kids (my siblings, not my own thank ****) for a game of football
19:30 - Collapse
19:30 - Shower
20:00 - depends on the day, either go out, watch a few films, play a few games either single-player or online, net, anything really
02:00 - Take a nap

Usual, depending on what time I wake up

And yeah, three hours of sleep, Innes? I'm ****ed if I don't get twelve.

[Razor]

04:00 - Alarm goes off
04:02 - Get in Bath
04:10 - Get out of Bath
04:10-05:20 - Have a brew, some grub, check tinterweb, put choones on ipod
05:25 - Leave for work
05:45 - Pop into Asda before work and get mulitple cans of RedBull
06:00 Start Work
12:00 or 16:00 Finish Work depending on what day (if 16:00 I goto bed when I get home normally)
12:30 - Watch a tv show on the net
13:00 - Tinterweb
15:00 - Pick up little bro from school
15:30 - Tinterweb or Xbox if a can be arsed
19:00 - Food
19:10 - TV
20:30 - Bed

[Innes]

Yeah 3. After about a month of around 5 hours, then I gradually found myself having less and less sleep, as work for college/sixth form increased. But I just got use to it. I'm **** tired every morning, but it passes in about 10-15 minutes. Then I'm good for the day.

And yeah, M&S - Nothing wrong with an overpriced organic sandwich.

[Renegade]

7:15 - Wake up, lie awake
7:45 - Phone alarm goes off - Helicopter by Bloc Party
7:47 - After listening to the line 'had a fight, we had a fight... six out of ten, better luck next time' - go for shower
8:00 - Get dressed into suit, check forums for 15 minutes, put any downloads on ready for the day
8:15 - Go downstairs, have a bowl of cereal (Cornflakes, no sugar) and one piece of wholeweat toast with NO BUTTER (eugh butter is minging)
8:20 - Watch ten minutes of Dragon's Den on demand
8:30 - Leave for work
8:55 - Arrive at work. Supposed to start on 9. Write timesheet as 8:45.
9:00 - Work, combined with checking forums
10:00 - (At the moment) call uni, ask if final year degree results are out. Get told to check the web page to see if they've been posted.
10:10 - Sit and refresh web page up to 50 times
10:15 - Back to work and checking forums.
11:00 - Refresh web page a few more times
11:05 - Make cup of tea, do some filing to avoid going back to work for a while
12:00 - Refresh web page, check forums, check other websites as and when, back to work
1:00 - Lunch. One wholemeal bap with either banana or salad (salad sandwiches rock), one apple, two S&V Snack-a-Jacks (better than crisps, so damn tasty)
1:30 - Back to work, refresh web page, check emails, check forums
1:30 onwards - repeat ad infinitum
4:45 - Leave work
5:15 - get home, tea - chicken with either pasta or rice, garlic and chilli
6:00 - watch Big Brother if I missed it the night before, or go on 360 (no specific game - depends how I feel). If girlfriend (Helen) is not at work, time is spent with her
7:00 - put some music on, go on 360 or PC if not already on it - or chill with Hel if she is in
7:30 - watch Euro 2008 fixture, no matter who it is
9:40 - Relax with Hel again. If she isn't in, back on a game
11:00 - in bed watching TV, unless sorting some forum stuff out (FIFA :()
1:00 - asleep

That's a weekday.

[DinnyHoon]

I don't get why people have a certain song as their alarm. I used to do that, and I ended up hating the song because of it.

Best idea: get a playlist of about 30-40 songs, put on shuffle, use as alarm.

[NeoKubrick]

I don't get why people have a certain song as their alarm. I used to do that, and I ended up hating the song because of it.

Best idea: get a playlist of about 30-40 songs, put on shuffle, use as alarm.

Best idea would be to use a bogger standard alarm tone.

[Gaskin]

Same I end up hating a song as an alarm. My day's are probably too random to post..

[Renegade]

Helicopter wakes me up quite quietly, without Helen getting woken up too. She is a nurse, so if she has been on a night shift the last thing she needs is to be woken up by my alarm.

The only reason people learn to hate their alarm song or sounds is when the alarm wakes them with a shock. If the alarm wakes you quietly/nicely, people don't hate it. I used to have Green Day - Holiday as my alarm, and it scared the crap out of me every morning when it went off. Now I hate it. Whereas Helicopter doesn't. I've used helicopter for a good couple of years, and still love the song.

[Terbinator]

my alarm sounds like a **** alarm, gets the job done. no one wants to me static if theres a fear of **** going about

[IcemanLeigh]

17:00 - Phone Yahni, if she's not coming in. (And have dinner)
19:00 - Get off the phone (Yes, 2 hours, sue me! I get free calls.)

23:00 - Phone Yahni
00:00 - Get off the phone.



Not only do you spend two hours on the phone, but you ring your girlfriend twice a day, every day!? I would probably go mad. Does this second phone call happen even if you have seen her earlier in the day?


Helicopter wakes me up quite quietly, without Helen getting woken up too. She is a nurse, so if she has been on a night shift the last thing she needs is to be woken up by my alarm.

The only reason people learn to hate their alarm song or sounds is when the alarm wakes them with a shock. If the alarm wakes you quietly/nicely, people don't hate it. I used to have Green Day - Holiday as my alarm, and it scared the crap out of me every morning when it went off. Now I hate it. Whereas Helicopter doesn't. I've used helicopter for a good couple of years, and still love the song.


Hahaha, Helicopter was my Alarm too for the very same reason. I used to have something different for mine but ended up hating it too. Helicopter has never gone down in my estimation from this though simply because it does wake you up gently.
Unfortunately though my phone is a bit screwed up now and my memory card doesn't always stay in so I just have the default alarm back on so that I can keep it constant.

[Innes]

Does this second phone call happen even if you have seen her earlier in the day?


Nope. Only if I don't see her - if I do, it lasts about 20 mintues. Just saying goodnight. Etc..

[DinnyHoon]

20 minutes to stay goodnight? Does she have a stutter?

(Only joking, please don't hunt me down)

[Innes]

Hahahaha! - Nah, I just get any crack from her, from home/work and what not.

[NeoKubrick]

any crack from her

You're not Irish, you know, Innes? :p

or you could be, but kept it on the quiet...

[Innes]

My Nan's Irish. My dad's a Mackam..Feel for me, please!

Mother's English though, so I've grasped back a bit of respect.

[Terbinator]

My Nan's Irish. My dad's a Mackam..Feel for me, please!

Mother's English though, so I've grasped back a bit of respect.

you gained more than a bit