Ideal life…
6am: get up, tea, yoga, newspapers
7am: breakfst, pack lunch
8am: bathe, dress up, make up
8.30am: leave home
9am: office, start work with website, post stories
10am: answer mails, make calls, make appointments
1pm: lunch
1:30 pm: meetings, calls, story follow ups
4:30: tea
6pm: leave for home
7pm: reach home, tea, tv, newspapers, shop for groceries
8pm: dinner
9pm: tv, read, yoga
11pm: sleeeeeep
real life……….
8am: get up, run to make tea, bathe, get ready
9am: leave for office, check mail in the cab, call mum and sis, read news online if there is any time left
10am: reach office, start posting stories
11:30: finish with website, tea
12pm: check mails, follow up on stories
1pm: lunch
2pm: facebook, chat with colleagues, dodge calls from PR folks, defend stories missed during the day, surf for stories and leads
3pm: check competition sites
4pm: tea, edit meetings and phonecalls
5pm: stretch, lounge around, pretend to work
5:30pm: make sufficient noise about feeling sick, pack bag casually and casually slip out of office
6pm: en route to home -call from boss, on possible story leads. cuss under my breath and switch on laptop reluctantly
7pm: reach home, still following up on story. tea, make calls
8pm: tv, phone calls to girlfriends and family
9pm: surf online, blog
10pm: dinner, tv
12pm: sleeeeep
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