Hansen's MagNET

I’ve started a new experiment of mine this year. From January 1 I’ve kept track of all my hours, 24 of them every day. So, I know how much I sleep (33 % of my time, so 8 hours a day), how much I socialize (11 %, or 18½ hours a week), and so on. I also know how much time I waste on surfing around like an idiot on the net, how many hours I’m physically active (not enough!), and the list goes on. Although I try to carefully keep track of everything I do, I still have a lot of fuzz – the term I use for hours not tracked. This turns out to be more than 3 hours a day on average. That’s more than 1,000 hours in a year! In this time I could have learned 1 or 2 new languages, or earned a good chuck of dollars working. But I don’t, since I have no idea where these 1,000 hours go. None a clue. I wonder if I’m simply poor at juggling my time, or if this is how it is for most people. What do you think?

I’ve been learning Romanian since last Christmas, slowly building a vocabulary. Today I reached five hundred words. Now much, but I’m happy with it.
The aim is to be fluent before the end of summer.