My usual morning goes something like this:

Up around 6:00 (but can be as early as 5:30 or as late as 7)
Off to the gym or for a run, then back home
Shower, possibly sing out of tune while in shower
Then either off to the Gracie Mews for breakfast or
Coffee, fruit, and perhaps a bagel while reading the news on my laptop
Write for a 1/2 hour to an hour
Clock into work at 9…ish

Pretty standard stuff. I live alone so no pets to walk, no kids to chivvy out of bed, and no significant other to remind to pick up the dry cleaning. The biggest deviation I’m likely to encounter is having to wash a coffee mug so that I have a clean one (I only have four and usually use two a day, and yes, I realize that shouldn’t take much energy to keep washed up, but you’re severely underestimating my ability to procrastinate if I’m not motivated).

Do you ever get in one of those fevered writing jags where the ideas come so fast and so powerfully that you curse your hands for not being able to type 500 words a minute? I’ve been in the heart of one today and honestly, it’s better than s- ‘mores. Ideally, I’d be out camping right now eating s’mores while writing, but seeing as I’m in New York in my apartment and eating healthier I’ll settle for the writing. I’m going to get back to it before the Golden Globes come on.

Shoot, now I really want a s’more.

I thought District 9 was a brilliant movie. Innovative, politically charged, and very thought provoking. I had one of the most stimulating and exciting conversations I’d ever had with anyone about a movie with my ex after watching District 9. It lit intellectual and emotional sparks. 9, on the other hand, mystified me. I just didn’t get it. The animation was fine, but the palette of browns made it exceedingly dreary. 9 just didn’t grab me. They aren’t trying to be the same movie so other than the cute similarity of their titles I suppose it’s unfair to compare them, but it’s Friday night and I’m here in my apartment and that’s where my mind wandered.

Many thanks to those of you waiting patiently for the audio edition. Just in time for Christmas…2010, the audio is here 🙂 And, if you’d like to hear a sample of narrator Michael Kramer reading the news sheet at the front of the book, check here:

http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_TANT_001217&BV_SessionID=@@@@1471021948.1263526281@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadejgielimdcefecekjdffidfkh.0

Just click on the right side of the little green sample button.

“Canada’s second-oldest magazine, The Beaver, is changing its name because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE60B3ZH20100112

I’d comment, but I’m too emotional at the moment to fully articulate my feelings, yeah, that’s it.