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| 6:00am | First big decision of the day: hit the alarm clock or throw it across the room. |
| 6:01 | One word: coffee. |
| 6:05 | Check email received overnight. |
| 6:30 | Start getting ready for RL job. |
| 7:00 | Leave for work. |
| 7:30-8 | Arrive at work. Open 3-5 (or more) browser windows. Three for applications and editing, one to track the forums, and one for #ODP. Open instant messengers as well. |
| 8-8:30 | Begin RL job tasks for the day. |
| 10:00 | Notice suspicious application in the queue. Begin investigating. |
| 10:15 | Uncool new editor's personal website in public ODP. Send them feedback on why cooling personal websites is not 'cool'. |
| 10:30 | Discover aforementioned suspicious application belongs to an x-ODP member. Make note of it for other metas. |
| 10:31 | Find out the newbie editor's site you uncooled has been recooled. Send the newbie feedback on why it's a *really* bad idea to continue this pattern. |
| 10:45 | Oh goody. Someone didn't check for existing cats and now there are cats for both Regional/Business_and_Economy/Widgets and Business/Widgets/Regional. Start a reorg thread in Ontology to resolve the overlap; send feedback to all affected editors. Vent in #ODP. |
| 11:00 | Someone in #ODP points out the thread in General with your name on it. Upon reaching it you discover it's the newbie whose site you uncooled. To put it tactfully, they're 'not happy'. Mentally hug the editors backing you up with pointers to the Guidelines. |
| 11:05 | Correct misspellings of homonyms 'sheer' and 'shear' throughout the directory. |
| 11:10 | Realize you need to produce more work at your RL job so your boss will actually pay you. |
| 11:30 | Finish the last few spelling corrections. Drop by the Penguin Café to see the latest Luzer antics. |
| 11:35 | Respond to the newbie who just instant messaged you with a question. Direct them to where they can find the answer. |
| 11:40 | Send a welcome message to the newly accepted editor in your Tree. |
| 11:42 | Oops. The boss is staring again - back to RL work. |
| Noon | Woohoo! Freedom to play at ODP for a full hour. Pop back into #ODP and good-naturedly call everyone pet names like 'putz'. Inhale lunch between responses. |
| 12:15 | Receive a request for a new tool. Begin programming. |
| 12:20 | Visit pmeta forums to check on various threads. Comment on various editors nominated for promotion. Post additional information found in researching current abuse cases under investigation. |
| 12:30 | Back to tool programming. |
| 12:45 | Check on the reorg thread for responses. Nothing yet. |
| 12:46 | Check other threads you?ve been following, including those for Trees in which you edit. |
| 1:15 | Drat, lunch ended 15 minutes ago. Back to RL work. |
| 1:30 | Have a chuckle over the new application which includes oodles of hype, every keyword known to man, plus the infamous 'and more'. Send the rejection notice. [ed: You can find old, but hilarious, examples in the Lighter Side of Meta Threads, parts I and II]. |
| 1:33 | Work. |
| 1:57 | The first response to the reorg thread appears. And it has nothing to do with the subject at hand. |
| 2:12 | Give advice to new meta who's trying to mediate editors. |
| 2:15 | Side-tracked again; back to work. |
| 2:27 | Receive a call from the school nurse. Your child just threw up, could you please take him home? |
| 2:30 | Tell everyone in #ODP of the family crisis. Promise you'll stop in later. Shut down browser windows. |
| 2:32 | Explain the situation to your boss. |
| 3:00 | Pick up green-faced child and head home. |
| 3:15 | Arrive home. Dig out thermometer, chicken soup, etc. and get child 'settled'. |
| 3:40 | Open multiple browser windows to edit. Let everyone in #ODP know you're home. |
| 3:42 | Check email. More ranting gems similar to this morning's batch. |
| 3:45 | Hurl expletives at Robozilla for showing up *now*. |
| 4:00 | Locate, edit, and add a decent site to a pet cat. |
| 4:10 | Check the forums again. |
| 4:30 | Back to dealing with Robo. |
| 6:00 | Respond to your significant other who just arrived home. |
| 6:03 | Realize you forgot to pick up some necessary items at the grocer's for dinner. Make pancakes instead. |
| 6:30 | Family dinner time. Change your name in #ODP to 'meta-dinner'. |
| 7:00 | Back to editing. |
| [time lapse] | |
| 10:30 | Play with the cat. The feline one. Or just let it 'edit' since it's pacing in front of the monitor anyway. |
| 11:30 | Tell everyone in #ODP you're going to bed. Change your name to 'meta-zzz'. |
| 11:33 | Respond to various comments in #ODP. |
| 11:40 | Tell everyone in #ODP you're going to bed. Add an extra Z to your name for good measure. |
| 11:45 | Raid the leftovers for a midnight snack. |
| Midnight | Join your sleeping spouse in bed. |
| 3:16am | Wake up from the nightmare that the iffy editor you approved is spamming the directory. Visit in #ODP until you feel tired enough to sleep again. |
| 6:00am | Another day, another [insert your nation's currency here]. |
- mngolden