Time to get ready in the morning
08-17-2007, 10:29 PM
#11
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2006
Posts: 260
1 hour.
20 minutes to figure out where the hell I am, how I got there, and why I feel so bad. Turn on the TV and watch the weather or news.
20 minutes to get ready.
10 to do last minute packing and to make sure I didn't forget anything.
Always 10 early for the van.
I put everything I own in one location. I pack the night before. My clothes are always ironed and ready to go. For the super early shows, I will have a redbull on ice ready to go (assuming I can find a gas station the night before).
I'm not a morning person in any way, so I need the extra time to get going. Some guys manage to do 20-30 minutes before the van, but that's just not an option for me. I'm more suited for flying boxes at night, than people at the ass crack of dawn.
20 minutes to figure out where the hell I am, how I got there, and why I feel so bad. Turn on the TV and watch the weather or news.
20 minutes to get ready.
10 to do last minute packing and to make sure I didn't forget anything.
Always 10 early for the van.
I put everything I own in one location. I pack the night before. My clothes are always ironed and ready to go. For the super early shows, I will have a redbull on ice ready to go (assuming I can find a gas station the night before).
I'm not a morning person in any way, so I need the extra time to get going. Some guys manage to do 20-30 minutes before the van, but that's just not an option for me. I'm more suited for flying boxes at night, than people at the ass crack of dawn.
08-18-2007, 06:29 AM
#14
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Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 40,050
You have to have a system...
Hotel Breakfast? 1 hour or you get rushed and spill syrup on your tie.
Need to iron a shirt? 45 minutes
Reuse yesterday's shirt? 35 Minutes
REALLY early show in the wrong time zone? Get everything ready the night before including shaving: 20 min
Hotel Breakfast? 1 hour or you get rushed and spill syrup on your tie.
Need to iron a shirt? 45 minutes
Reuse yesterday's shirt? 35 Minutes
REALLY early show in the wrong time zone? Get everything ready the night before including shaving: 20 min
08-18-2007, 06:44 AM
#15
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Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: CRJ
Posts: 2,356
You have to have a system...
Hotel Breakfast? 1 hour or you get rushed and spill syrup on your tie.
Need to iron a shirt? 45 minutes
Reuse yesterday's shirt? 35 Minutes
REALLY early show in the wrong time zone? Get everything ready the night before including shaving: 20 min
Hotel Breakfast? 1 hour or you get rushed and spill syrup on your tie.
Need to iron a shirt? 45 minutes
Reuse yesterday's shirt? 35 Minutes
REALLY early show in the wrong time zone? Get everything ready the night before including shaving: 20 min
08-18-2007, 07:08 AM
#16
Saab Saab Phooey!
Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: Set Hundo
Posts: 479
Anything earlier than 6:00AM, shave the night before. For a CDO/highspeed, shave before your evening show time, and that's it. Don't even pack the razor.
20-30 minutes for an early show. 45 minutes for a later show. Adjust as necessary for breakfast.
20-30 minutes for an early show. 45 minutes for a later show. Adjust as necessary for breakfast.
08-18-2007, 02:41 PM
#18
Gets EVERY weekend off
Joined APC: Jul 2006
Position: SIC
Posts: 1,367
1 hour man here
If i work out the night before, and shower that night, i'll typically go w/ 30-40 minutes before. Still have to crap and shave. Use the hat to hold everything, try to keep my phone on the desk away from my nightstand (don't wanna be hitting snooze to much) and the hat keeps me from forgetting my I.D. I also never try to pack up the morning i'm leaving, everything will be in the bag the night before, just needing to be zipped up. Besides shower stuff, if needed that morning.
If i work out the night before, and shower that night, i'll typically go w/ 30-40 minutes before. Still have to crap and shave. Use the hat to hold everything, try to keep my phone on the desk away from my nightstand (don't wanna be hitting snooze to much) and the hat keeps me from forgetting my I.D. I also never try to pack up the morning i'm leaving, everything will be in the bag the night before, just needing to be zipped up. Besides shower stuff, if needed that morning.
03-23-2008, 10:36 AM
#19
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Posts: 12
I can't remember exactly which hotel I was just in. I think it was the Sunshine something we use when in JFK. Anyway there is a nice indigo blue digital unit on the wall that I turn up to 72. Wake up shivering in a ball in my freakin bed too cold to get up and it's like 5am so no help diving for the curtains either. Then there's the choice you have to make. Do you lay in bed and curl up to an even tighter ball or do you jump out damn near screaming as you fight the battle against the cold towards the AC unit on the wall/floor? THEN as you start getting closer the air that's blowing out at 45mph and colder than all hell starts hitting you in the face so you duck down as close to you can to the floor. Next comes the squatted crab walk where you inch by inch work yourself closer under the razor sharp jetstream of air leaning in with your longest finger and star hitting the (^) button until it gets up into the 70s and the thing manages to shut off.... Only then have you won the battle.
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