A few weeks ago ChriS asked me what a day in my life looks like. Well, each day is a little bit different and I’m a little too precise to lump them all together into one ‘average’ day. So what I did was leave ecto open all day and keep a running log of things as they happened. So here is what yesterday looked like.
6:20 AM - Battle the snooze button.
6:42AM - Finally get up. Mozey into my office and wake up my PowerBook. Quit out of SuperDuper from my backup last night, and with a few key-strokes of Quicksilver I open up Mail, NetNewsWire and my FeedBurner stats.
6:44AM - While those load up I go downstairs to get the coffee brewing.
6:50AM - Return to my computer. Check for any urgent emails, the latest comments and referrers on TFS and my current FeedBurner stats.
6:55AM - Jump in the shower. Yes, I use a loofah.
7:05AM - Get dressed. Kiss my wife good morning (it takes me a while before I can be social at all).
7:12AM - Leave a comment on seansperte.com/, close my laptop and zip up my backpack.
7:16AM - Pour the coffee for Anna and me. Pop a bagel into the toaster.
7:26A - Out the door.
7:32AM - Late for my Prayer Room Team’s briefing. I hate that.
7:40AM - My Prayer Room Team prays for people on Thursday mornings - Johnny from God TV, Michael from the IHOP-KC media department, as well as 7 or 8 other personal prayer requests people have emailed to IHOP that we help share the load with.
8:01AM - Quick meeting with Whitney, my co-leader about our new absence tracking sheet.
8:03AM - Brent is still away on his honey moon, so I get his table spot. The light-bulb in the lamp is missing.
8:04AM - Find a new light bulb.
8:07AM - Re-check email for anything urgent. Pour my first cup of coffee (don’t tell Judy I brought my thermos to the prayer room), and crack open Romans.
8:32AM - Tweet: “In the Prayer Room studying Romans. Also doing a ‘day in the life of’ post today.”
8:40AM - Check drudge report, and respond to an iCal invite for the Sunday morning leadership meeting from Rachel. Spill some coffee in my lap. Doh!
8:42AM - Reading Paul for Everyone: Romans Part I, by Tom Wright. On Salvation from Romans 1:16 -
Salvation is such a well-known word that we can easily assume we know what it means and then take it for granted. The meaning we normally assume is ‘going to heaven when we die’ … but this salvation, as Paul often makes clear, isn’t only in the future … when this salvation breaks into someone’s life it becomes an event in itself to which they can then look back in the past. They were saved; they are being saved; they will be saved.
9:01AM - Brent is back.
9:22AM - Tom Wright on human rebellion and corruption:
Humans were always designed to be central to God’s plan to rule his creation: that’s pard of what it means to be made ‘in God’s image’ (Genesis 1:26-27). So when humans go wrong, the world as a whole is put out of joint.
10:00AM - Michael and his family show up for an appointment with my prayer room team to get some prayer.
10:33AM - Back in the prayer room. Misty Edwards is leading the 10AM intercession set.
11:24AM - Take a self portrait with Brents Palm Treo.
11:28 - Brent wants to know how I did it. So I take a picture of Brent and show him how to send it to someone.
11:30AM - Brief with my worship team, and eat the lunch my wife brought me: leftover chicken and rice with a brownie.
12:00 - 2:00PM - Drum. It’s a ‘worship with the Word’ style set, and we’re doing Ephesians 1.
2:20PM - Go home to get some work done: Send and reply to my e-mail, work on sound and blog stuff for onething, and check out the Starfield (band playing at the onething Youth Conference) website … wait a second, I don’t remember designing their logo.
3:15PM - My latest edition of Print arrives in the mail.
4:08PM - Pick up Anna at IHOP. She takes me back home and drops me off and goes to her voice lesson. I work on some design projects for Forerunner Media Group while listening to the latest Limited Edition.
6:22PM - Power nap.
6:50PM - Date night starts. Anna makes dinner, and we hang out at home.
9:00PM - Meet at IHOP for Brian Kim’s bachelor party.
12:01AM - Go to the midnight showing of Spider-Man 3.
3:03AM - Meander home, print out directions for our trip to Lincoln tomorrow, finish this post and go to sleep.
Phil said:
Bro, that is one long day! I don’t know how you can hack it! Up at 6 and bed at 3 is just crazy talk! How much sleep do you get?
On the flip side, good post, qite interesting to see how people live their life, or at least what they do from day to day.
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 6:07 am
Dennis said:
Sounds like a good day….but 3am….that is crazy.
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 6:13 am
Evan Olsen said:
that doesn’t mean you NORMALLY get three hours of sleep right? Just cause spider-man 3? Was it amaaaaazing?
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 9:47 am
Ben said:
How was spiderman 3????
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 9:59 am
Jo said:
Very fun post…. and yesterday was a great day for our prayer room team.
I must say, even though Shawn was out till 3am he still was early to the prayer room and rockin’ out the 8am set this morning! Way to GO!
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 10:18 am
{Shawn} said:
I normally go to bed around 10:30 or 11. I haven’t stayed up that late in a loooong time.
Spider-Man 3 was excellent. I will have to take Anna to go see it while it’s still on the big screen.
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 10:51 am
Jacquie said:
Speaking of Starfield, I thought it was pretty cool that they are playing at OneThing when I saw it on the website, since they are originally from my hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba! They used to play often for my church’s youth group when I lived in Calgary, so it’s cool to see all the new places God is taking them now. Plus, I think it’s quite lovely that you are having some Canadians join you for the conference - their worship style and love for Jesus is awesome, so they’ll fit right in!
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Ryan Couch said:
@ Shawn: Listening to you do your “WMD-Drumming” right now at 1:35 - who needs sleep?
Highest…praises….to…You….Jesus!!
Hallelujah!!
p.s. wife and I are going to see the web-slinger save New York City (for the third time) and hopefully himself and his girlfriend here in approximately 2.3 hours. i love clean epic action romantic hero dramas.
They remind me of the greater story we are in with the ultimate, bestest hero ever ever ever - King Yeshua!!
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Ronni said:
man, and I thought I was tired… i’m more tired reading that now!
OY!
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 2:11 pm
loud said:
You actually sleep your Powerbook at night? I sleep the display and mute Adium, but I don’t sleep it — I want to keep this hard drive as long as possible, and while the jury’s out, most would say it’s good to keep it spinnin’…
Is that Evil and The Justice of God? Ah, N.T…. I have issues with him. He’s a good guy, but his whole Pauline debacle on justification, among other things… Simply Christian, with its emphasis on the aesthetic creation, was so big on the “Christian Spirituality”, Donald Miller bandwagon, it just bugged me.
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 2:44 pm
loud said:
Actually, I saw N.T. Wright’s dvd, “Evil”, and he just kinda bothered me. In a big, Papa Bear kinda way.
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 2:49 pm
loud said:
Oh nevermind, I just saw what book you’re reading.
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Ronald Huereca said:
Oooh.. I got to see a midnight showing of Spiderman 3 also. Fun stuff. Nobody dressed in spider outfits though.
Posted on May 4, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Armen said:
Interesting day Shawn. Did you note all those details on a notepad or what?
Posted on May 5, 2007 at 8:58 am
{Shawn} said:
@ Loud: I’ve never heard it’s best to keep the hard-drive active. I sleep it about 3 nights a week.
@ Armen: I left ecto open and would jot down notes as I got a chance.
Posted on May 6, 2007 at 2:24 pm
adamhanly said:
you forgot to mention how terrible the movie was.
Posted on May 7, 2007 at 2:04 pm
{Shawn} said:
@ Adam: Actually I liked it. I thought it was great. You have to watch it as if it were a comic book projected onto the big screen. The over drama and coincidentals are all part of the fact it’s a comic book.
Posted on May 7, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Sharon said:
My brother, Michael, works in the IHOP media department. I wonder if that was him that you all prayed for, hmmm…
Posted on May 8, 2007 at 1:08 am
{Shawn} said:
@ Sharon: Does he have a son by the same name and a wife who’s name starts with ‘H’?
Posted on May 8, 2007 at 7:09 am
Sharon said:
Yeah, that’s him and “Hannah”.
Posted on May 8, 2007 at 3:49 pm
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Posted on May 16, 2007 at 7:16 am
Esbjörn said:
Hey…
do you have contact with brian kim?
i worked with the call in germany and had the oppurtunity to met brian at the jhop in dc…
could you give me his email adress…
much blessings
Esbjörn
Posted on July 1, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Josiah King said:
Hi! I just got back from the Passion for Jesus conference. It was my first time at IHOP. I was just wondering, you mentioned design, are you a graphic designer for IHOP? I am involved with art and I was wondering if IHOP has their own graphic design team. I love the new LE album cover. I am going to do the Onething internship in July. I cant wait! Anyways, thanks for talking with me.
Posted on March 13, 2008 at 7:27 am
shawnblanc said:
@ Josiah: Hey man, glad you enjoyed IHOP–KC.
I have a couple friends who will also be doing the One Thing internship this July, so you’ll be in good company.
And yes, I am on the IHOP–KC Marketing Department as the one of the print designers.
Posted on March 13, 2008 at 3:35 pm