9:13am Wake up. Roll over and go back to sleep.

10:30am Eventually get out of bed. Mosey around in my pajamas and sleepers. Make a cup of coffee and eat my breakfast while clicking through the NY Times online.

11:30am-ish (my timekeeping is less fastidious on the weekends) Get dressed and cleaned up.

12:10pm Go over to Gorilla Coffee and buy a pound of beans. Have them ground and happily take the free medium coffee that comes along with buying a pound. They punch my “bean card” and the next pound is free — yay!

12:20pm Sip the very strong free coffee while packing up my stove top percolator and floor pillow, both of which I promised to bring to my book club this afternoon.

12:30pm Decide I have a few extra minutes before I need to head out the door. Begin writing my post for Saturday.

12:50pm Catch the train to the West Village. Squeeze myself between two men who are taking up the whole bench on the train by spreading their legs wide open as they sit. By squeezing myself in, they are forced to bring their legs together at least a little bit.

1:20pm I arrive at Cari’s adorable apartment, but only after walking up the six flights of stairs. Yes, it is a “walk up,” as elevator-less buildings are affectionately known. Am only slightly winded upon reaching the top. I greet the folks already there, and begin to brew a pot of coffee. We settle in with lots of food as people arrive — quiche, croissants, and fruit salad. We catch up with one another and then talk some about the book, The Golden Notebook. This is not a strict book club, and we are all in various states of completion of the book. I happen to have left mine in D.C. last month and have not been able to finish it, but I am in good company with a few others this afternoon. It is still an interesting conversation. I volunteer to host the next book club in February to discuss A Confederacy of Dunces.

4:00pm I leave for home.

4:35pm I walk in the door, and switch on my computer for a Skype date with mein Schatz. He fills me in on his lunch with my father, who is in Germany on business, and I tell him about how cool Unsilent Night was.

5:25pm Finish writing my Saturday post.

6:04pm Call Suzanne to see if she’s up for meeting on our qualitative project. She will come over in about half an hour. Try to really think about the themes of our transcript, specifically around physical and emotional safety. Realize I am really not very good at qualitative stuff.

6:25pm Watch the video my Mom sent of my 20-month old nephew bowling. So cute! Watch it again.

6:40pm Suzanne comes over. I show her the bowling video and a video of my nephew wearing a Santa hat and saying “ho ho ho.” We talk about the transcript and struggle through it, identifying the main theme and several quotes to illustrate the theme. I don’t know why this is so hard for me, but it really is. But I think we manage pretty well and even highlight and name the quotes in Atlas.ti. We choose our next transcript, and then talk about our upcoming weeks.

8 :30pm Suzanne goes home, and I heat up the homemade cinnamon roll she brought me. Oh my gosh, it is so delicious!

8:45pm Sit down to start writing my Sunday post. Decide that spending a whole week writing about What I Did All Day takes a lot of time. I like the exercise in general, but on some days it felt like more of a chore than an exercise in creativity. I will probably do it in the future, but only for one or two days at a time. With that said, I am wrapping up the week-long series. Thanks for reading along this pretty typical week in my life. I commend you for sticking through it!