Google Calendar owns my life
I usually plan my work life around a full academic year (2010-2011 in this case) and then add on top the summer months of the preceding year, so that is becomes a full fiscal year (in this case, most of my projects run May 2010-April 2011). The way I planned my academic year for 2010-2011, I made sure that the heaviest teaching load was in the January-April 2011 (two courses) as I would like to take some time in May 2011 to just have a holiday. I am a planning geek.
I was just programming the rest of this full year (e.g. June 2011 through April 2011) and booking time on my Google Calendar for everything (my office hours, the time I have allocated for Projects A, B and C) and I realized how much of my life is owned by Google Calendar. Seriously. I have gotten to the point where I ask my collaborators, and even my best friends “send me a GCal invite and I’ll accept it”. ics files and I have become very, very close buddies.
The truth of the matter is, I am always so busy that if I didn’t have Google Calendar (and my trusty iPhone who syncs with my GCal) I would probably fail at everything. I have marked deadlines for projects, birthdays, and even reminders for when I have to exercise and when I am supposed to be eating/sleeping. Not kidding you.
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