I’ve considered setting up a blog for some time, especially after my monthly email list hit the 30 mark. Although the idea is appealing, the reality is that I’m an irregular writer who spends more time trying to locate her wasted muse than writing. It will be interesting and/or depressing to see whether I can muster the discipline to post daily.
Ok, let’s not be too ambitious: weekly.
One problem is that, now that Husband and I have settled into Turanga Road, we rarely leave the house. My working day looks roughly like this:-
08:00 Get up
08:01 Shower
08:15 Chew on Husband’s ear a while
08:20 Turn on coffee machine
08:27 Open garage door and walk down the driveway to check post
09:00 Go to office to Write
09:01 Check email, write responses to incoming
09:40 Pick fingernails
10:20 Look up waffle irons on Trademe
11:09 Read new threads on discussion board www.bookshed.eu
11:55 Research (MacGyver on Wikipedia)
12:04 Secondary research (methods for defusing nuclear warheads, the melting point of iron, Clayton County, entomophagy, online radio stations, balloon fetishes, symptoms of anaemia, the Piri Reis map, pictures of facial boils, Gothic cemetery art, squirrel hazing)
12:30 Is it lunchtime already?
13:10 Digesting
15:00 Go to office to Write
15:01 Return to kitchen to make coffee
15:15 Go to office to Write
15:16 Think up excuse for not Writing
15:20 Return to living room to rearrange sofa cushions
15:30 Go to office to Write
15:31 Check out the time in Adelaide, Ireland, Albania, London, Spain, Dubai, Jordan and Auckland
15:39 Definitions of the word ‘harrow’ on www.m-w.com
15:50 Look up exchange rates: US$ to NZ$, AED to NZ$, Euro to NZ$, Euro to US$
16:30 Go to kitchen, look in fridge
16:47 Return to office, look up recipes including ingredients: red cabbage, dark chocolate, blue cheese, crackers, sherry
17:00 And we’ll call that a Hard Day’s Work