Just finished a paper for my Victorian class: "Law as People's Festival in Bleak House." But don't ask me to explain it. A friend asked me earlier today to explain it and I kind of gagged mentally. There are some things I can only explain digitally--that is, using my fingers, typing into a keyboard. Which shows the extent to which keyboards and such have re-wired my brain. That old theme.
Speaking of which: I've blogged before on how I've re-arranged my schedule so that I can blog at night. That's a kind of re-wiring, changing habits, etc. But it's also been a chemical re-ordering: namely coffee.
Today I was going to write in the morning, but I got up late and then I was invited to go see a film. I considered for a nanosecond sticking to my schedule, but then told myself it was a holiday and I should go see the film (which I review, ABOVE).
I also remembered a trick of mine back when I was working part-time in the morning and afternoon (pre-grad school) and trying to write a novel in the evening. Generally I'm a morning person, and was then, but my schedule demanded that I do some re-ordering. So, typically, I would work, come home and take a nap for an hour, so that when I woke up it was like a brand new day. This trick somehow gave me the energy I needed to sit down and work for four hours, when normally I would be nodding off in the early evening (this was before I drank coffee).
Anyway, that's what I did today. After the film, I came home and took a nap. Then, when I awoke, I made a thermos of coffee and went to work. And finished my paper.
The drawback, of course, is that now it's 11:30pm and I'm wide awake. That's a drawback? You can blog for another couple hours!
Posted by jeb at October 11, 2004 11:28 PM | TrackBack