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October 20, 2005
Lazy Days
I’ve spent the past couple of days taking it easy, pottering around the house, throwing myself into domesticity trying to forget about the horror that was that exam. Yesterday was taken up with getting the house back up to a habitable standard again, yes that does say a lot for how much it had been neglected in past weeks. Today I went to Tesco’s and stocked up the bare cupboards. I tend to do this when I lose my confidence over study or writing, it is almost as if I think to myself ‘well if I’m not going to make it in my chosen area, then I can at least be a good mother/ housewife.’ But then I get bored and irritated because I wasted spent the whole day cleaning this goddamn house and no-one noticed. Also there’s nothing like missing the first bus back from the supermarket and having to kill a mind-numbing three hours until the next one to get you reaching for the pen - or in this case a ‘groovy ghoul’ mug that I’m convinced is going to help me write my NaNo*
I’ve been reading too, nearly finished the Virago Book of Ghost Stories (and still have Volume 2 and the Victorian one to read) and have started Joolz Denby’s Billie Morgan.
So I’ve had a rather lazy day or so but now I’m ready to take the bull by the horns and throw myself into things again. Tomorrow I’ve got two short stories to tidy up and a novel to plan for next month, oh and next Tuesday I’m trying out one of the fiction one-off workshops at the New Writing Types which just happens to be taught by Joolz. If I like it I might stay for the whole week next year.
So I dabbled for a while in domesticity, but it didn’t really work out. The house might get cleaned again round about the time the results get released just before Christmas.
* Background on my lucky mug obsession here.
Posted by purple elephant at October 20, 2005 06:06 PM