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My days inevitably begin with me waking up late. So much so that my boss officially changed my start time to "9:15 or whenever." This sort of flexibility is the main reason I remain in this job. I've never been one for time-clocks and early meetings. In fact, in this job I have no meetings what-so-ever, a far cry from my days as a facilities manager.

My commute is wonderful, I walk 230 steps (ah, pedometer) to my neighbors' house just around the corner. Often I'll go one block out of the way to a local cafeteria for some coffee and a corn muffin to go. This gets me through the morning grumbling- not from my tummy, but from my boss.

I stay there in his house for the next seven or eight hours, and I organize his life. It keeps me busy, far busier than I ever expected- I mean, the amount of work this one man generates is truly astonishing. At times it is stressful, at other times it is peaceful. The deciding factor is a simple one, for it only depends on whether he is home or not.

After work is done, I walk back home and enjoy dinner with my girlfriend, who is a professional singer. We've lived together for years, and always have a lot to catch up on from our day. After dinner, my real work begins.

Like so many other artists, my evenings are filled with answering emails, packaging orders, updating sites, reading books about business, reading blogs, scanning, blogging, and - oh yeah - drawing, inking, and measuring out new boards.

I also enjoy, and need, some sort of exercise during this time, but it varies. Sometimes its a long walk with a camera, or to the post office, or to shoot baskets at a local court. Sometimes I do nothing but stay hunkered over my work until I am too drowsy to do anymore. When I go to bed and start the whole thing over again. It is not the way I want things to be, but it works for right now.

Obviously, I cannot do all these things every night, so I have recently developed a schedule for me as a guide. And its one thing having a schedule, its a whole other thing to post it on my wall. Seeing it constantly encourages me to stick to it, and to know that whatever else is on my list of things to do, there will be a time for everything. I figure, if I spend half my day organizing my bosses life, some of these skills can surely apply to organizing mine.