Time trouble
Or rather, it should be Time Management trouble. I have recently taken a vow to catch up on pending tasks and read all the 1876 emails in my GMail account and phone up three college friends and help in preparing breakfast and attend a yoga class.
The only problem with such a noble list of deeds is the time involved. For the uninformed, this is a primer of my daily schedule:
Wake up – 9:00 hrs
Stare glassily with the paper in hand – 9:15 hrs
Stare glassily with the tooth brush in hand – 9:30 hrs
Brush teeth, have bath, gulp some cereal – 9:45 hrs
Leave for work – 10:00 hrs
I shall not give my daily activities while at work since I do not want my boss to find out how much time I waste every day at work when he stumbles on this blog. Of course, by the time he learns of the existence of this blog, I may have been promoted to his position and he may have been demoted since he didn’t learn the existence of my blog earlier 
Come home from work – 20:00 hrs
Become a couch potato – 21:00 hrs
Remain a couch potato – 22:00 hrs
Eat a frozen dinner as a couch potato – 23:00 hrs
Vegetate as a couch potato – 0:00 hrs
Shift scene to the computer and vegetate further – 1:00 hrs
As you can see, I am very busy at home in the evenings. Quite often, such dedicated hours in the front of the TV will be replaced by shopping expeditions, shopping binges and shopping sprees, not to mention the occasional times when I decide to socialize and morph into a party animal and continue partying till 06:00 hrs.
So when I got a daily planner as a gift from a well-meaning “enemy”, I decided to ink all the items in my To Do list. Then I filled the current schedule page as given above, religiously going on to give additional details like which programs did I watch at which hours, etc. When I came to the next section in my planner, it instructed me to make time for the To Dos and if needed, cut down on “repetitive tasks that add no value”. Come on, try saying that television viewing is a mindless task that adds no value to BBC and they will kick you! Since I agree with BBC on this, I have also kicked the planner.
Of course, frenemy (friend who became an enemy after presenting me with the planner) still doesn’t know about this. An alternate schedule has been give to him which includes all the items in the To Do list and the day that idiot realizes that I am scheduling for 27 hours per day, I am DEAD!!
