In my favorite jobs it has been possible to do research and writing during the day, on weekdays. That is when I have worked the least and gotten the most done.
Most jobs I have had have had me in workshops, meetings, student activities, and classes 9-5, when not 8-5 or 11-8, so I have been trained to make research an evenings and weekends kind of thing.
I know: theoretically one can take evenings off and rise at 5 for one hour of work before the commute, or before the offices start buzzing with disruptive energies. But although I like to get up and start right to work, I don’t like to front-load the day in that way. Fifteen minutes to set the tone or intention is fine, but that is as much as I can ask of myself if I have two or three classes and a meeting before noon. What I want to do early in the morning, before the day starts, is LSAT preparation.
After that this semester, I can have, perhaps:
Monday: morning research, afternoon preparation, evening CORRESPONDENCE, research/writing or work on improving general education/creative writing.
Tuesday and Thursday daytime: teach, grade, research activity #2. Tuesday evening CORRESPONDENCE, research/writing or work on improving general education/creative writing. Thursday evening is studio time for ceramics.
Wednesday: morning research, afternoon preparation, evening MEETING and pre/post meeting administrative work or correspondence.
Friday: morning research, afternoon meeting, evening housework and social activity.
Saturday: morning yoga, housework, shopping; afternoon yard work; evening anything.
Sunday: ideally, some sort of excursion and then go out at night.
I’ll work on shaping this up further.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Refining:
1- early mornings LSAT and news, but it has to be in print or on radio. dedicated hours to correspondence, news online, blogging, but these are not to be in the morning.
1- Mondays could be days to spend in foreign libraries and the excursion (if to Tulane) could start on the weekend. Drive down Sunday, stroll around and read, go out, do whatever. Work all day Monday. Come home to Maringouin after rush hour. I could even say: all Mondays are in the library, here or elsewhere, with Tulane being once a month.
Also – I get to write in my blogs anytime I want, but not follow anyone else’s thread or read e-mail outside designated correspondence hours.