I spend Monday mornings in my studio from 8:30am to 12:30pm, so apart from a quick check of my Facebook feed when I first woke up I didn’t engage with any online media in the morning.
Google Drive
My studio group used Google Drive to collaborate on a running sheet for our first project — an hour-long demo radio program for 3RRR. We were all physically sitting at the same table, but we used Google Docs to create a document that we could all edit in real time during our discussion. We shared ideas, edited each other’s ideas, and refined our running sheet into something we could use that afternoon when we had booked a practice session at RRR.
Snapchat
My studio group had a practice session at RRR in the afternoon, and I took a quick video from my point of view in the studio and posted it to Snapchat. I have a group Snapchat with some of my closest friends in which we like to post “what I’m up to today” style posts, so I sent the video to that group to share what I was up to today. I also sent the snap to my girlfriend and a couple of other friends whom I thought might be interested.
Overcast
On my way home I listened to a couple of podcasts while riding my scooter, on my phone using the app Overcast. Specifically, I listened to Brooke Gladstone’s appearance on the Longform podcast, and then a back episode of Crimetown, both of which were at the top of an ongoing playlist I use to keep track of what I want to listen to. Later, at home, I changed it up and started listening to an old episode of U Talking U2 to Me?.
Netflix
After I got home in the afternoon I threw on Arrested Development on Netflix and did some cleaning up around the house. I then sat down to do some study and kept the TV on, to give me a little bit of noise in the background (which sometimes helps me study). This is something I often do when I’m trying to be productive, as I don’t work well with silence and need something, either music or a TV show I’ve watched a thousand times, to keep me focused.
While studying, I noticed myself starting to procrastinate and decided to channel that into something productive. I still have a bunch of photos I took on my trip to Japan that I still need to upload to Facebook, so I took them off my SD card (the photos were taken on my Canon 1000D camera) and uploaded them to my #japantrip album. I decided against doing any post-processing on the photos before I uploaded them to Facebook, but I did meticulously list the locations in which each photo was taken and tagged my girlfriend in any photos of her. My purpose for posting these photos on Facebook was to share my travel experiences with friends and family, especially if someone had recommended we visit a particular place that we ended up loving. I’ve really enjoyed sharing all the fun things we did on my first overseas trip.