what I did all day,
thursday feb 19th 2015

time audit · 11 years after the fact · logged in real-time by teen nicky, categorised by 2026 claude

nicky kept a minute-by-minute log of a single thursday when she was ~14. 130 entries between 09:20 and 21:55 (plus overnight sleep implied on both ends). this page breaks the full 24 hours into categories, adds up the minutes, and notices a few things.

the numbers

12h 45m

total sleep
(overnight + nap)

144

log entries written

~48m

spent logging
(@ ~20s/entry)

mobile game sessions
(8 clash, 3 crossy)

yoghurts consumed

teeth-brushings (bedtime only)

where did the day go?

top 8 categories, everything else lumped. percentages out of the full 24h (1440 min) — sleep is over half. each of the 144 entries took ~20s to write, which gets subtracted from whatever was being interrupted and added to log — so "log" rolls up into being its own slice now.

full breakdown

all 14 categories, ordered biggest to smallest. bars are relative to the biggest (sleep, at 764 min).

the day as a strip

the full 24 hours, sized proportionally. hover any block to see what it was. the big lavender bands on either end are overnight sleep; the smaller one mid-afternoon is a 1h 30m nap.

things that jumped out

clash of clans is the connective tissue. it shows up 11 times — in bed, on the toilet, between meals, after failing to study, last thing before sleep. it's not an activity so much as a default state she returns to.

2 hours of window-staring. 09:48–10:21, 12:34–13:00, 15:36–15:58 (curled up after failing to study), 20:16–20:47. a quarter of her afternoon was just… looking out.

she was a caretaker too. made her brother's breakfast (waffles + beans + tea), fed him "like a child" at 11:16, cleaned up after him. ~40 min of the morning was looking after him — rolled into "food" in the pie, but worth naming.

the letter project was the real work. 85 minutes of focused crafting — writing something, scavenging a magnet out of an iPad case, gluing it in, taking pictures. longest sustained attention of the whole day, by a lot.

23 minutes of "studying" in a 12.5 hour window. attempt 1: 1 min, abandoned. attempt 2: 11 min of pretending when mum walked in. attempt 3: 11 min of actual study. this is the shape of executive dysfunction in a log.

social contact was ~11 minutes. saying hi to the babysitter (1 min), trying to whatsapp someone (7 min), and consulting random.org for a yes/no on whether to say something. she did not say it.

photographed everything. the waffles. the yoghurt. a block in the window. the window itself. the pizza. the finished letter (twice). the lasagna. the bread roll. documenting a day nobody asked her to document.

multitasking on the toilet. 10:22 start pooping · 10:27 send an email to digiweb · 10:30 play clash of clans for 12 min · 10:42 finish pooping, wash hands. efficient.

evening skin routine was methodical. took a whole shower, then later: pill → brush teeth → shave → wash face → read the defferin leaflet for 4 minutes → apply. teen acne treatment taken seriously.

the raw log, categorised

expand all 130 entries (coloured dots show category)