A Day In The Life
MooshiMooshiSan, frustrated at her friends not updating their blogs, has suggested that all and sundry document today, Wednesday the 7th of November, as completely as possible.
I was woken up at about six by Lucy, the largest and pushiest of our two cats, miaowing over and over again in the way she does when she wants fed. Lucy's breakfast alarm seems hard-wired to go off in the early hours of morning to matter what. God knows why. Rather than stagger out of bed at 4am to feed her, we have one of those cat bowls that have a lid, which springs open on a timer. Normally this is enough to get her to shut up and let us sleep through the night, but not this morning. I figured that I'd forgot to set the timer, but when I got up the lid was open and there was still food in it. I tried giving her a bit more, but nothing seemed to shut her up. I also tried going back to bed and closing the bedroom door on her, but predictably that just resulted in a combination of miaowing and scratching, so in the end I just gave up, wide awake and with no chance of getting back to sleep.
It did give me the opportunity to go out for a run, though. I hadn't been out at all last week, and felt that I had lost a bit of momentum. Sure enough, I didn't manage to go as far as I had been able a couple of weeks ago before falling into the run/walk/run pattern, but it was good to get back into it and get my heart rate up. At home, I took a shower, got dressed, and make myself a bowl of muesli and a glass of orange juice, and a bowl of microwave porridge for R. Once I'd eaten I still had some time before my train, so I checked my mail and RSS feeds, and played a turn on Facebook Scrabulous (to which I am incurably addicted) before heading out the door.
At work I put on a pot of coffee, and got fired into finishing off a job that would have been done weeks ago had it not been for various other issues popping up and taking priority. It felt good to finally knock it on the head, but I am only cautiously relieved, since it's entirely possible that I'll be revisiting it once it goes into the product and testing get their claws on it.
At lunchtime I nipped out and bought a pasta-salad thing from M+S, then back at my desk checked my RSS feeds again and did some work on my NaNoWriMo novel. I'm doing fairly well, having passed the 10,000 word mark, but the last couple of days have seen me slow down. Yesterday I managed to hammer out approx. 700 words on my lunch break, but no more later in the day due to attending my writing class, and a gig immediately afterwards. At lunch today I only managed about 400, but every little helps. I'm generally aiming to reach 2000 each day, which should get me comfortably past the 50,000 word mark by November 30th. The novel itself is, of course, complete bollocks, but it's an enjoyable experience and I'll be pleased if I make it past the finish line.
The afternoon in work was mostly spent tidying up some annoying little issues. At home R and I hummed-and-hawed over what to have for dinner, and whether to go out or not. In the end we settled for spinach quesidillas, which R made, and which were, naturally, awesome. We needed a few items so I went out to Tesco. The lady in front of me in the queue bought a bottle of vodka and a packet of cigarettes, and paid from a Hello Kitty purse.
After dinner we watched TV for a little bit. R intends to go with one of her friends to Ikea tomorrow, so we spent some time looking through the catalogue at chairs and bathroom cabinets. Then I did the washing up, and sat down to do a bit more on the terrible untitled novel. Current word-count: 12,688.
Finally, I updated this blog, and went to bed. Probably. I expect there might be time for a little Zelda:Phantom Hourglass before I turn out the light, however.
And that, dear reader, was my boring Wednesday.
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