Rating for 12/5: 2

In the spirit of deflating system points, I'm trying to scrutinize myself more than before. Day 1 of my time log worked out so-so; today it has been much better. I started by writing down a task and how long it took. This leaves a significant amount of time unaccounted for. Today I'm doing it by time, not by activity. So theoretically I'll have some account for every minute of conscious time, even if I just write, "screwed around" or something like that. On to my score explanation.
The bad:
I got up late. I don't know when exactly, because, as I said, I was recording by activity, not by time. Getting a bad start negatively affects my morale for the rest of the day. I feel lazy, and I feel ashamed as I, for example, exercise outside in the middle of the day when the parking lot is empty, and the people I see are retired for the most part.
I spent 50 minutes eating breakfast, showering shaving, doing dental hygeine stuff, dressing, and getting my stuff prepared before I leave the house. This seems like too much time. One of the concrete goals I have for my time accountability system is getting a firm grasp on what I'll refer to as my daily overhead. Analogous to business overhead, this will encompass the basic activities that I need to do everyday in order to live a basic healthy and ethical life. This includes sleeping, eating, showering, cleaning, etc. Any real achievement on my part is going to happen in addition to these things. In other words, if all I do in a given day is overhead, I will have merely broken even (and if I'm not working, I'll have ended worse than I started the day). I want to take my overhead tasks, study how long I'm taking to do them, and streamline them. For example, I'm thinking that I should be able to shower, shave, and complete my dental hygeine in 15 minutes. In the coming days I'll strive to hold myself to that length of time and test whether or not it's a realistic yet efficient amount of time. If it is, I'll incorporate that into my schedule and try to make it a daily, habitual thing.
I spent a great deal of time yesterday preparing my resume for a job that it turns out I can't even take because of my schedule. It's main hours are from 3-7 Mon through Thurs, but I cook dinner for the house around 5 or 6 on Monday and Thursday every week. We could rework the house schedule, but I know it would be a huge pain for everyone else. Until this job is the only job available, I'll pursue less inconvenient options. However, instead of realizing this, I spent hours riding back and forth between my house and the computer lab, first realizing my resume file had somehow disappeared on the network, then going back to put it on a datastick, and then coming back too late to go into the place and actually submit it. On top of that, somehow it got smeared slightly with something, and I don't want to use them now anyway. I should have realized all of this and used my time for other things.
I have 2 hours and 45 minutes listed vaguely as "internet stuff" This is inexcusable. I know whatever I was looking at or doing didn't need to take that long.
I didn't accomplish much beyond my overhead.
The Good:
First and foremost, I didn't give up when I started encountering hugely obnoxious practical barriers. I could have easily put off the resume until tomorrow once I found the file missing, but I rode home again, and back to school again (in the snow) in order to finish what I had set out to do. That was virtuous. Speaking of this kind of thing, I'm going to give myself an automatic 1 anytime in the future that I just stop striving to achieve my goals on a particular day and say to myself, "I'll start tomorrow on a fresh day, get up early, get off to a good start, have good planning, etc." That line of thinking is attractive, but in the end it's garbage. Things always get messy, and we have to deal with imperfection. This I need to drill into myself, because I forget it all the time. No starting tomorrow, one needs to do the best one can at the time given the circumstances. What's good, as I was saying, was that I didn't do this.
I bought an excellent, and much needed, scarf for $1.05. The value to cost ratio on that purchase was huge, which is ideal.
Not only did I exercise as much as I told myself I was going to, but I completed my lifting routine in 45 minutes. In theory I'd be comfortable giving myself an hour for that activity, but if 45 minutes will suffice, then that's great. I didn't skimp on the specific drills either.
I made an awesome dinner, albeit with portions too small and without much time left to eat it.
Ok, I'm spending too much time on this. Accountability and critical evaluation is key, but after a point it becomes cumbersome and inefficient.