Use of Time During Quarantine Week

 time seems different. It feels like I'm doing less but more is getting done, but also there's this floating feeling b/c I'm doing stuff in the same space. I broke it down between then and now....

WORK

-Normal TV writers' room (including travel): 10 hrs a day/50 hrs a week

-TV writers' zoom room: 4 hrs a day/20 hrs a week

- total saving: 30 hrs

GYM

-Normal Gym time (including walking, shower, etc): 

2 1/2 hrs, 5 X a week: 11 hrs 

-Working out at Home: 45 minutes 4 X a week: 3 hours

-total saving: 8 hrs

ENTERTAINMENT

-Normal Theatregoing (including subway, waiting, etc):

 4 hrs, 4X a week: 16 hours 

-Zoom Theatre: 1 hr, maybe 2X a week: 2 hrs 

-total saving: 14 hrs

RESTAURANTS/GROCERY STORES

Normal (including subway): 3 hrs, 3-4 times a week: 12 hrs

Homecooking and Instacart: 1 hr, 7 x week: 7 hrs

-total savings: 5 hrs a day

SCREEN TIME (including laptops and phone)

Normal Screen time: 6 hrs/day, 7X a week: 42 hrs

Quarantine Screen time: 10 hrs/day, 7 X a week: 70 hrs

Total deficit: -28

WEEKLY TOTAL: I am saving 57 hrs a week, which is like adding an extra 2 days added to the calendar, BUT...

-I am also using screens (b/c of work, entertainment, ordering food, ordering groceries) 28 more hours every week! Which is a lot. It is like having one day just devoted to be on screen. 

Overall I still feel like that is a net total of an extra 29 hrs every week I'm not on a subway, walking somewhere, waiting for food in a restaurant, shopping in person, and 4 hrs every day we are not at work on EVIL or THE GOOD FIGHT. 

-The question is...would you want to go back to the way it was before?

 Of course I want the gym back. I want theatre back and to see people at work...but at the expense of adding an extra 47 hrs back to my week? A lot of my writing in contemplating and I think this extra time is why I'm writing so fast now. Granted some of that contemplation was happening before quarantine when I was walking and on the subway and waiting for food...but this is quieter and more focused. I have an extra 2 days of more focused thinking, mulling an idea around, and rewriting. I think this is why tv writers' rooms are becoming so efficient on zoom. Most writers HATE zoom but grudgingly admit that time flies by and scripts are getting cranked out b/c they're only at work 3-6 hrs a day, and they no longer have to worry about getting dressed, transportation. The awful convenience of zoom rooms means that writers are saving an entire day of planning, dressing, transportation.