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In this moment I have a very quite and calm life which is almost entirely dedicated to study.

Note that even though I live in Amsterdam which is at GTM+1, I live on GMT-7 or GMT-12 (depending on the parity of the week). So all the below has to be shifted from what "morning", "afternoon" and "evening" means for you... (above all if you live in Europe).

When I wake up in the morning, I spend some time (from 30 mins to a couple of hours), coding and reading some news (mainly an impressive collection of weblogs), then I go to work (by tram or taxi), where I start studying (sometimes I make a phone call first to have some food delivered). I am quasi alone in the office, without much distraction, so the setting is perfect to concentrate on something. I usually study five or six hours straight before starting to feel hungry, at which point I can only carry on coding. Then I call a taxi, arrive home, cook, read some more news, feel too tired to code but do it anyway, and then fall asleep, from which point I will sleep for about 10 or 11 hours.

The best part of all this, in spite of all the exciting things I am learning and building in this moment (some advanced mathematics, finance and various software engineering projects), has to be arguing with the taxi driver on the best (shortest/cheapest) way to travel between my flat and the office. That part is priceless :-)

But the sad part, is that maybe one of the reasons I like it, is that it's the only moment of my days when I actually talk to somebody. This said, I cannot afford right now to go out and make some new friends, the studies I am undergoing are way to important for me. It's like I am a PhD student again, but sadly without the PhD mates and my students.