My thoughts processes seem to be becoming more and more disorganized. I wonder if it is my schedule.
11AM - Stagger out of bed.
11:05 - Turn on computer. Wade through a pile of poorly composed but oh so dreadfully important business letters. Attempt to render them into comprehensible English.
11:45 - Turn on CD player. To the accompaniment of loud rock and roll music rattle my head about the apartment trying to impose some sort of order on my cramped living arrangemet.
12:15 - Lunch. I pretend to understand what people say to me but actually I am just flirting. This frequently leaves me feeling somewhat agitated.
12:45 - Bus ride. This usually involves a review of vocabulary and an attempt to remember anything of what I said last class.
1:00 - Teach the day’s first class. Usually an ill concieved affair involving a lot of expermentation and attempts at profound comments in a language that I don’t really speak.
3:00 - Headache.
3:05 - Another bus ride. More review of vocabulary and waiting for the bus to quit rattling so I can underline things. Headache worsens.
3:10 - An attempt is made at excercise.
3:15 - Attempt at excercise is abandoned due to worries about the evenings class.
3:15 - 4:00 - Snooze.
4:00 - 6:00 - Searching through linguistics textbooks looking for some confirmation that the language learning system I am developing makes any sort of sense.
6:30 - Another bus ride.
7:00 - 9:00 - Evening class. More experimentation. Experience a strange mixture of fear, confusion and boredom. Nobody seems to know what to do but everyone seems happy when I leave.
9:05 - Another bus ride. Vague sensation of unreality settles in as I ask myself “How did I get here?” “How do I work this?” The only answers I can think of are “That is not my large beautiful house.” “That is not my fancy automobile.” “That IS however my beautiful wife.” Some consolation is found in this.
9:30 - Attempt to recollect whatever epiphanies I might have had over the preceeding 24 hours in order that they might be rendered into yet another brilliant essay. Simultaneous attempt at translating one or the other of said essays into Pinyin. Things are really getting hectic upstairs by now.
10:00 - Wife awakens from after diner snooze. At first she appears to be among the living dead but gradually becomes more animated. Marital duties are attended to.
10:05 - Somehow feeling more relaxed but with much work left to do I decide it is time for beer.
12:30 - The beer was good but I can’t figure out why those fuckers at UFC keep interupting the best fights with those god dam tele-slut commercials.
12:56 - Post a new topic at Forumosa.com.
Old age :stinkyface:
See now if my thoughts weren’t so disorganized I would have thought of that myself. Hopefully I will some day be too old to know how old I am. Thanks.
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10:00 - Wife awakens from after diner snooze. At first she appears to be among the living dead but gradually becomes more animated. Marital duties are attended to.
10:05 - Somehow feeling more relaxed but with much work left to do I decide it is time for beer.[/quote]
Less than 5 minutes to take care of marital duties?
With the four and a half minutes allowed for emerging from after snooze stupor only about thirty seconds is left for attending to marital duties. Poor girl.
I’m in the same boat bob. The only thing that’s changed is my age, all else constant. Well, not exactly, I suppose permanently getting hitched has done something I’m not aware of. :s My constant busy life and activities juggling is beating my poor brain to a pulp. Such is life. :loco:
well bob…as much as you hate my opinion, I am still going to throw it out here…
First, you didn’t mention what time you went to bed, or more importantly sleep. Being the old guy that I am, I believe sleep is the most important thing. Next comes diet…you mention lunch but no breakfast or dinner. Ironlady has warned me about assuming but I hope you only neglected to mention those two meals.
Exercise should be next on the list. It takes time, and a lot of work, but getting a good exercise routine going will help keep the energy level up there and the brain a little more organized. At our age…assuming you are at least close to 45, walking isn’t a bad way to start out and I am not just talking about your trips to work. I am talking about a nice brisk walk in a park somewhere for at least 30 minutes to an hour. After this becomes too easy, maybe you can add swimming to your routine. Main thing here is to start out easy. Trust me, it might seem easy but your body needs time to adjust before you take up cross country running. 
Of course we all have to work, so the last thing on my list for reducing the effects of scattered brains is a consistant schedule. Not rigid but consistant. Work we sometimes can’t control but I think if we train ourselves to wake up, go to bed, and exercise at basically the same time our mind expects us to do these things and it will become easier with time. A regular schedule of four or five light meals is also a good idea if you can fit in with your work schedule.
And I love drinking as much as the next guy…hell maybe more, but that does slow us down a bit…all the way around. :fume:
Anyway, best of luck…btw…the more you exercise the more energy you will have for those marital duties… 
Nice to know you guys are concerned about me but actually I was about half kidding about most of that stuff. Must not have been that funny. Anyway I am in pretty good shape for an old guy I guess. Tuesday nights I have class at tunhua and Xinyi and manage to walk from there home (by minchuan mrt station) no problem. And I do yoga everyday and swim twice a week. Weekends usually involve a climb up qixingshan or body surfing at honeymoonay. If I hadn’t blown a disc in my back last year I would still be biking everywhere. I think my brain is a little more scattered than usual though. No joke about that. I don’t know if my short term memory is all that bad or if I just think it is bad. Anyway I don’t trust it so it works out about the same. And my spelling is getting worse despite the fact that I read and write all the time. I mean really bad too. Sometimes I can’t spell well enough to find words in the dictionary. That kind of thing doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in my students. My pinyin is improving though!
bob…you are living in Taiwan!!! Wake up! Of course your spelling is getting bad, you’re lucky if you can even remember words…I can’t 
The crossword in the taipeitimes is not bad to get the brain moving and thinking. Also, read a good novel, not textbooks or magazines. Get that spatial thinking thing going.
Also watch Pride Fighting Championship. They had a good one today. Saku vs schrembi, randleman vs Jackson, Newton vs Anderson Silva. All were knockouts.
All knockouts from knees to the head. Wierd.
Hey you’re right! I didn’t make that correlation. You are improving already!
Visit the Chinese medicine man for some strange potion to improve short term memory lost. After a few sips you’ll never forget hope bad it taste and hopefully that will improve your memory.
Tiger penis, turtle soup, and snake meat for the marital duty issues. 
But won’t the poor tiger miss his penis?
I assume you are teaching English. At least you are honest about being a “real” English teacher.
Send her to me. That language I speak well.
[quote]3:05 - Another bus ride.
3:10 - An attempt is made at excercise. [/quote]
Excercising on the bus?
Little bob stretches. You never try that?