I Never Thought I Was a Schedule Freak, But...

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Every football season I spend a lot of time making college football schedules for my Dad and me. We both have DirecTV for sports, and he has a college football package that I don't have. Every week I look up the schedule on the ESPN college football site, I write it down by hand, which accounts for about 2 1/2 pages of notes, I coordinate the TV scheduled channels with the games on my list (which added up to 46 this week, and I include the channels my Dad gets that I don't get), adding any that weren't originally included, then I type it and present it in a perfect package. Both to my father and to myself. Then I spend hours staring at the masterpiece I've created, admiring the time slots, the listed channels, and the games.

So can I now join the "Bus Schedule" gang, or am I in a different league? (I have no interest in bus schedules). I just love looking at a perfectly arranged schedule that has something to do with an interest (football). I make NFL schedules too, but those are much shorter, involve less work and are not as interesting to me as college schedules.

Of course, it could be that having a consolidated schedule of a large number of seemingly diverse games is great because it's convenient, but I'm not sure that explains my fascination with staring at the list for hours.

I didn't realize there was a bus schedule club but I think I am in it.
I collect schedules and memorize them.

I like looking at the guide on my digital cable television, finding shows and highlighting them to "record" so the box will switch the television over to the correct channel when the show comes on. There's something cool about that guide. I could never get into the tv guide magazine or the television section of the Sunday paper although I know people who like reading those. I function better when the guide is part of the television, not a seperate entity.

I'm the same way. I schedule everything. And have like a planned specific time I do everything. If I don't schedule I get very cranky and very upset. Because everything feels to chaotic and out of order.

I think you just hit the nail on the head for me. A good schedule makes sense out of chaos and is actually comforting.

My thing is control. I guess with a schedule it makes me feel like I have enough control to be able to do the things I want. Because I feel I have a "enough" time.

Its funny because, I think I could do all the same things I do without a schedule and still have enough time. I just prefer to schedule it.

I like to read schedules, like times and dates when places open and close and operate. I do not follow a timed schedule because it'd cause more stress than I have already if it couldn't be followed to a T.

But I do do things in order. First I do this, then this... order but not restricted on time. Sometimes I have times for things, but I always set them in a 2 hour range to start doing them so it can be completed.

I MUST do things in order because I can't multi-task. My inability to manage time efficiently makes me slow at pretty much everything, except that which I've been doing repeatedly. A neat schedule means I don't need to juggle an awful lot of "possibilities" in mind at once, which can work with 1, 2, maybe 3 things, but no more. And the 1, 2 or 3 things that I can sometimes juggle are still confusing and distracting.