Score: +2
Total: 27
Work hours today: ---
Work hours for the week: ---
Days Sugar Free: 3
Sleep: 8 hours until the test is over.

Summary: Vocab practice during lunch, advanced an administrative task toward completion, help cook dinner for Aaron, ate an enjoyable meal (salad, lasagna, challa, matzo ball soup, and black forest cake), and before I go to bed I want to finish making what I hope to be my final set of vocab flash cards.

Score: +2
Total: 25
Work hours today: ---
Work hours for the week: ---
Days Sugar Free: 2
Sleep: 8 hours until the test is over.

Summary: So my vigor is wasting away, eh Dan? See my response. Anyway, today was awesome. I got up virtuously, kicked ass at work, created and studied vocab flash cards at lunch, went for a 30 minute bike ride along the Schuylkill Banks Trail to the end of Boat House Row, ate dinner (while listening to Jazz, yeah!), and studied the rest of the night.

Score: +2
Total: 23
Work hours today: ---
Work hours for the week: ---
Days Sugar Free: 1

Comments: Great wake-up, work, studied vocab at lunch, unpacked after work, went for a run in the park (beautiful scenery), started making dinner while listening to NPR, cleaned up around the house, went to Maxx's for some miscellaneous groceries and appreciated their clean and attractive store, finished dinner, wrote some emails, ate dinner with some wine and jazz compliments of WRTI, and soon I'll be going to bed.
Herbal tea in the morning and wine in the evening are great. Wine and jazz, eating and relaxing--it's a very beautiful way to wind down and get ready for bed.

Score: +1
Total: 21
Work hours today: ---
Work hours for the week: ---

Summary: I rebounded more or less from yesterday. I reviewed my system, reminded myself of the wisdom and experience that it was built upon, and recommitted myself. I also reminded myself that sometimes certain elements can be suspended to accomplish necessary short-term goals (although the whole system is required for a long-term, sustained effort). In particular, I'm suspending my "working hours" cap until I take me GRE. My plan is to make sure I cover the fundamentals, i.e., I'm going to make sure I get good sleep, eat nutritious meals, and get exercise. I will also take care of any necessary practical tasks that arise. Other than that, I'm going to spend all of my time studying. No leisure time until the test is over. I plan to take it the weekend after this weekend. After that I'll take a vacation to recover (I think that will be Thanksgiving weekend the following week, no? If so, that'll be perfect). So, for right now, I'm not tracking work hours, since there are no caps in place.

Score: -1
Total: 20
Work hours today: 0.5
Work hours for the week: 0.5/60

Comments: I need a house cleaner and a psychiatrist. Too bad I have no ducats.

Score: +1
Total: 21
Work hours today: 0
Work hours for the week: 53.5/60
Sleep time: 8.5 hours, will attempt next week.

Summary: Painted the apartment and watched the Eagles. I had some thoughts about my hours count. The point is to make sure that I do just the right amount of work. In theory, over 60 will compromise my humanity, and less will be lazy. So far my definition of what counts was based on an idea. I was thinking that since I have the limit to prevent burn out, essentially, I should count anything that feels like work. If it makes me tired, or sucks, or whatever, that's work. If it's fun, it's not. I'll put up with 60 hours of horse shit per week.

Score: 0
Total: 20
Work hours today: 0
Work hours for the week: 53.5/60
Sleep time: 8.5 hours, will attempt next week.

Comments: The sugar experiment is over. Even after 10 days, once I started eating sugar again, I was completely blown away by how different I was. I had no discipline, I was irritable, I had a harder time dealing with complexity and ambiguity (everything was black or white), and I had no energy. The affects of the abuse on my mind and body are so bad, that nothing other than strategy A is acceptable, because I can't handle any more. Starting tomorrow, I will go back to strategy A.