My reliance on Google continues

I've been preaching time management for years, but my own waxes and wanes.  Upon reading some advice from another writer, I've started keeping a bit of a schedule/record of my days.  So basically, I plan  my week in advance, and it's depressing to see that a large chunk of my day - the majority of my waking hours in fact - is spent on work and work related activities (such as traveling to work).  From this, I've discovered that on afternoons when I'm not tutoring students (which technically counts as work too... damn it!), reluctantly catching up on chores, or having religious types talk at me, I have between 1 and 3 hours to write. 

:)

And not a day have I kept to plan, but you know what, just having activities planned makes me more productive.   I would have never remembered to wash and hang up my clothes if I hadn't blocked out time for that on my precious Google calendar.  I wouldn't have finished betaing Val's story.  I wouldn't have worked on Woodsman at all.

So the point is, that while things don't always go to plan, planning has made me more productive.  Funny that.  Hopefully I can sustain it.

In a blink of an eye, it's suddenly the middle of August.  My year goal of having a manuscript ready for querying is not going as planned.  I haven't finished my second draft yet.  Hopefully by the end of September I will have beaten a path of order through the wild forest of chaos.