maandag 21 januari 2008

Upside down

As a WAHM you don't always work conventional hours. Although I am a strong believer in having some kind of schedule as a guideline, with set working days and hours, to help establish boundaries between your professional life and your personal life...in practice things do not always go according to plan.

This Monday is a case in point. For the first time in weeks there was no deadline looming and I intended to work on answering the email messages that have been piling up in my inbox and do some admin. Admittedly not a very exciting prospect, but I looked forward to having the time to do it while Thomas was at school.

But yesterday evening I first watched 'Messiah' on BBC, then read for a long while and then found I could not get to sleep at all. At one o'clock in the morning I was still wide awake. When I was finally becoming somewhat drowsy, around two in the morning, I suddenly had an idea for a story I am working on. As experience has shown that these ideas tend to vanish overnight if I don't write them down I got out of bed and enjoyed a few hours at my desk till the crack of dawn. Then slept an hour or two, had breakfast with Thomas and then got back into bed, only to wake up at lunch time. Bye shedule, bye admin, by empty inbox.

But what the heck, there is always to-morrow...

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