Some reporting is due.
Wakeup time needs to be 5:00 AM. M/L total time is down while also not feeling so rushed. This has to do with familiarity with the Latin. It's natural. M/L is really now around 45 mins (this morning it was 38 minutes). This gets me safely to school for the 7:40 AM prayer.
A 5:15 AM wake up would give away the edge gained by the increased-familiarity with the Latin. I'm not getting better at the Latin so I can sleep more, I'm getting better at the Latin so I can pray more.
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| "Lamentation of Christ" van der Weyden, 1460-1463 |
There's a two-hour penance I like to practice—I can tell you more about that another time—which in order to get 2 good hours, that needs to have begun before 5:30 AM, since I'm on the road by about 7:30 AM for school. So this means I've at least showered and gotten started by say 5:20 AM or so. Hence a 5:15 AM wakeup cuts that too close.
The start-time for M/L is what has wobbled these last four weeks. There is much ground to gain by way of consistently beginning M/L by a set time. I'd set that broadly between 5:45 AM and 6:00 AM.
A 5:45 AM church-unlock should give time for coffee but no internet. I'm totally fine with that. This would reliably start M/L by 5:50 AM. M/L would then end by 6:35 AM and the half-hour of meditation would then end by 7:05 AM. Prime would then be done by 7:15 AM. This would give me about 15 minutes—to do what with? I don't know. I have used that time in the past to blog. I won't use that time to excuse a 5:15 AM wake up. I have used that time, in part to set up for Mass, which is completely reasonable. I could then—get ready for it—plan my day. That would be astonishing. Let's work on that.
That's been another development these last weeks is a significant though not yet at all total weening from the internet time-suck.
I've now also begun working on a study chunk of time as well as recovering the swim time which I've completely lost.
