Not everything has changed for Eliot Spitzer since he became governor. He still eats cereal and yogurt at his favorite upscale Upper East Side diner, takes his morning jog around the Central Park reservoir before sunrise — albeit with less frequency than when he was attorney general — and carves out time to attend surprise birthday parties.

In many other respects, at least according to Mr. Spitzer’s daily schedules, the governor’s life seems to be shaped by the whims of exigency.

His schedule does not show regular Cabinet meetings. Some days are filled with a dizzying array of other meetings and events. Others are almost blank, leaving what he did a mystery to outsiders. The one on-the-job consistency — a 9:30 a.m. sit-down or phone call with his chief of staff, Richard Baum — seems to have faded away in April.

Through a Freedom of Information Law request, The New York Sun received Mr. Spitzer’s complete schedule, available for download here, for his first 180 days as governor, available for download, providing a picture of how the state’s executive spends his time.

Mr. Spitzer most frequently schedules meetings with Mr. Baum; his director of operations, Olivia Golden; his counsel, David Nocenti; two Empire State Development Corp. leaders, Patrick Foye and Avi Schick; a special counsel, Richard Rifkin; his budget director, Paul Francis, and adviser Lloyd Constantine. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson hardly appears on the schedule.

At least a couple of times a week, Mr. Spitzer eats breakfast at Three Guys, an Upper East Side diner on Madison Avenue where eggs, juice, and a cup of coffee will set you back $15. “He’s a very nice man,” one of the owners of Three Guys, John Zannikos, said.

Breakfast is the governor’s most exclusive parcel of time, reserved for his closest friends and the financial, political, and publishing elite.

Among his breakfast partners are: New York City’s schools chancellor, Joel Klein; lawyer Jerry Kremer, a Spitzer fund-raiser; Governor Corzine; white-collar litigator Andrew Levander; public relations executive Lisa Linden; the publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr.; a lawyer who is a State Sentencing Reform commissioner, Cyrus Vance Jr.; financier Michael Falk; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s chairman, Richard Beattie; cable executive Leo Hindery Jr.; developers Larry Silverstein, Jerry Speyer, and Howard Milstein; international trade executive Carl Spielvogel; friend and campaign donor Stuart Shorenstein; a former schools chancellor, Harold Levy, and Mayor Bloomberg.

Mr. Spitzer hasn’t given up his 5:30 a.m. run around the Central Park reservoir. The schedule shows 10 jogs in New York City between January and the beginning of July. A spokeswoman, Christine Anderson, said the governor runs “a few” times a week and also goes to a gym.

His busiest days feature a frenetic mixture of solemnity, policy, and spin. On January 29, for instance, the governor took a run in the park, met with Mr. Bloomberg about the demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St. (the site of Saturday’s deadly blaze), and paid his respects to the family of a late assemblyman, John Lavelle, all before noon. He then flew to Albany, where he delivered a speech on education, held a press conference, practiced his budget speech, met with labor leaders, and participated in a conference call with three governors.

Weekends are for the most part clear of events.

On his second day as governor, Mr. Spitzer had private meetings with three people: the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, the Republican Senate leader, Joseph Bruno, and Assemblyman Alexander “Pete” Grannis, who would later be tapped by the governor to be the head of the Department of Environmental Conservation. The governor finished the day with “downtime,” the schedule says.

On May 23, when at least two of his aides were hatching a scheme to discredit Mr. Bruno (a scheme that erupted into a scandal weeks later), Mr. Spitzer was interviewed by New York magazine, met with the leader of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, Shawn Graham, and Chief Judge Judith Kaye, attended a private luncheon, participated in a conference call with General Motors’s CEO, G. Richard Wagoner, and attended the anniversary dinner of the Citizens Budget Commission.

Mr. Spitzer has scheduled meetings with filmmaker Spike Lee, actor Edward Norton (both of whom are donors), the Reverend Al Sharpton (at least twice), actor Michael J. Fox, the Homeland Security secretary, Michael Chertoff, Governor Schwarzenegger, mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer, and the UFT president, Randi Weingarten.

On June 7, after a press conference, Mr. Spitzer met with the CEO of the energy company NRG, David Crane, and lobbyist Senator D’Amato, presumably to talk about “clean coal” and proposals for a new power plant siting law. He then met with prominent Albany lobbyist Patricia Lynch and a GM executive, Troy Clarke.

Mr. Spitzer has found time to attend two surprise birthday parties: one for a CNBC television host, James Cramer, and one for another friend. His schedule contains reminders to call Governor Carey and Mayor Dinkins on their birthdays, but does not mention the birthdays of other Democrats, such as Mr. Silver.

Mr. Spitzer doled out one-on-one interviews with the press carefully. The day a comptroller-screening panel snubbed Mr. Silver by picking finalists backed by Mr. Spitzer, the governor met with the New York Post’s editorial page editor, Robert McManus, and gave an interview to the Post’s Albany reporter, Fredric Dicker. Two days later, the tabloid ran a story with the headline: “How Eliot Gave Shel a ‘Kick in the Groin.'”

He has met at least twice with Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns the Post. The outreach has apparently done little to help the governor’s case. Since April, the newspaper has published numerous editorials attacking the governor for yielding on the budget and for not being more forthcoming about the state police scandal.

“I don’t think we ever considered it a close relationship,” Ms. Anderson said.

The governor scheduled a photo shoot and four interviews, including a breakfast, with a New York magazine writer for a cover story about his stormy tenure that was published last month.

Mr. Spitzer, who has vowed to oust Republicans from power in the Senate, no longer appears to be trying to recruit Republicans into his party or executive staff.

In February, on the day Democrat Craig Johnson won an election for a Long Island Senate seat, Mr. Spitzer met with a Republican senator, Stephen Saland. On March 21, in the middle of budget negotiations, Mr. Spitzer met individually with Republicans John Bonacic, Thomas Libous, Joseph Robach, George Winner, and John DeFrancisco. (In between his charm offensive, Mr. Spitzer found time to call IAC’s CEO, Barry Diller.)

None of the lawmakers has switched parties.

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Download Mr. Spitzer’s schedule (large PDF).