heigh-ho, heigh-ho

It's 3am, and I'm starting to think I should go to bed. Bizarre.

On average, I wake up around 11am. Take a shower, change into jeans and a t-shirt. Sometimes sweats if I'm not leaving the house. Take the dog out, have some granola and sit at my computer. Read the news on BBC, check mail and get down  to work eventually.

It's been good to really dig into work lately. (I build websites, mostly in Ruby and fairly advanced CSS). I have my desktop super-clean and I run what I consider the holy trinity: TextMate for coding, Transmit for file transfers, and Firefox. Adium for chat with clients. I'm so stingy with my memory usage that I only launch Mail periodically throughout the day.  I have headphones plugged in while I listen to iTunes to drown out the distracting house noises, like the spouse-unit moving around, or the dog snoring. I close the iTunes window and use CoverSutra to control everything with the keyboard, and keep an Apple remote next to my Mighty Mouse to control volume. I use Anti-RSI to remember to take breaks every 50 minutes (if I'm a good girl) and Alarm Clock to countdown tasks. It's a lot harder to space out when you have a timer ominously ticking down the seconds.

Yes, I've been caffeinated. I've finally accepted that it goes with the territory. I have a pack of XTZ truffles, little caffeinated chocolates. They don't taste all that bad, actually, and I can throw one in with my afternoon hemp protein shake and sip it down over the course of an hour. It's pretty neat. I'd abstain, but I would be stupid to deny just how clearly focused I am on the stuff. I only start to wind down around now.

One more week. One more week of crazy sleeping hours, endless typing, rocking out to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs as I bounce around in my Aeron chair, thinking in the back of my mind of how much I love my code and building things with it. *sigh* Just one more week, I promise. Then I'll get on with the rest of my life.