In my plan to emphasize housework, the university gymnasium, and research, in that order, and let everything else fit itself in, here is today’s sketch.
7:30 breakfast
8:15 scan e-mail, upload letters of recommendation
8:30 write this post, accommodate guests (yes I am also a bed and breakfast, and it is Mardi Gras)
9:15 commute
9:30 revise and print exam questions
10:00 give exam, update Moodle, respond to mail, begin preparing classes for tomorrow
12:00 meeting
1:00 lunch
1:15 office hour
2:30 library errands, equipment check
3:30 meeting
5:30 commute
6:00 Pilates
7:30 dinner and then make concrete plan on transcription of meeting notes / do research / reorder files in office and house (you see, that is part of the housework necessary for research)
So you see, of actual academic work I might do as few as eight hours today, of which note the 3 hours of meetings, the 1.25 hours of office hour, and the 3.75 hours of light secretarial work and preparation … and this is on an easy day, but still research only starts in the eighth hour.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Do you really run a B&B? I don’t, but it sures feels like I do sometimes.
I am an Air B&B!
How it really went – instead of being at Pilates at 6, I stayed on campus doing paperwork until 9 PM, because things came up.
So, 1/2 hour of research reading now; no working out and no serious housework. It’s that tenured faculty service component which kills!
…and again: it really is this: sleep, housework, exercise, research; do those four things each day and everything else falls into place (and also proportion and perspective).
…according to Reeducation, to have life this well ordered was to have too much “control” and to be fleeing “reality” via a “coping system”…!
It is impressive that you have everything so well ordered in your mind and well translated into practicality for your everyday life.
I do hate house cleaning and so does my significant other but we love our apartment clean and well organized. So, we don’t clean but we do talk about how to keep it nice and make plans. Our regular plan consists in bringing somebody to do the cleaning every week. But we don’t go out to eat. We stay home, cook, eat, dance and everything else. We don’t do research. We both work in the travel business and write travel reports for magazines every other week.
Well I’m glad you think it’s impressive – I think Reeducation thought it problematic because it had this idea that one wasn’t a person. You have to think of yourself as a person and deserving, as people are, of leading your life in a relaxed and practical way. For Reeducation, it was inappropriate I could be a person, I see darkly.
All right, so Saturday there were four hours of research followed by four of housework and then four of working out, then going out.
Sunday there was almost no work since I went to the Mardi Gras. We’ll see how I do today, Monday, where it is already 1 PM, but I know what I want to do – research first.