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What's a typical day-in-the-life for you? This assumes that you have some kind of routine in your life...
Oh, hang on....Nick! Nick could be Blake! Because, you know, ideological differences, lots of disagreement and tension, and sharing a ship (sort of). Yes....that could work. But I don't think Nick would *want* to be Blake...that's a good question. Hands up who wants to be Blake?
Ahem. Right. Sorry. Moving off Blake (as Avon has on occasion had to do, when there's an alarm or something)....a day in the life.
Well, pretty dull really. If it's a work day, up at about 7:45, shower, muesli (with soymilk - I eat far too much dairy already). Don't tend to remember dreams. The remnants of my eidetic memory give me something akin to OCD, so I don't make coffee, since it would involve an endless cycle of checking hat the tap and filter machine are turned off. On bad days, that is days when I have had very little sleep, this can add about ten minutes to the time it takes me to get out of the house, thus costing me the vital (well, not vital vital, but generally uncrowded for some reason) 8:28 train to work.
As the nights draw in, the greatest struggle here is to get a) out of bed and b) out of my pyjamas. I have few obsessions in this world, barring all the obvious ones, but a really finely-turned pair of pyjamas is, I'm afraid one of them. I have a Calvin Klein pair which I swear are made of clouds, so comfy are they, a no-fucking-around insulated set I picked up in Boston, and stole not one but two sleepsuits the last time I flew Upper Class. The older and crankier I get, the more important it is to retain what little body heat I have left.
See here for more on the memory thing, by the way, through the medium of interpretative dance.
I'm fortunate that my office has no dress code, so if I don't have a meeting I can just throw on whatever I was wearing on Sunday and turn up unshaven. I usually leave work somewhere between seven and eight in the evening, and then generally have something to do in the evening. I'm trying to cut down on my social commitments at present, but this has unfortunately conflicted with a very powerful desire to spend an entire week drunk that I am now coming out of. Anyway, I usually end up in the West End or Kensington seeing somebody or somebodies, or just stopping off for a quick drink with Sleaze, who works nearby, which usually escalates into a semi-Barbemeet as stragglers, innocent bystanders, friends and acquaintances are gathered up into a big sticky ball.
So, home usually somewhere around midnight, and then food, check email, a couple of hours' reading, and sleep.
Non-work days are a bit more random. I'm trying to become more of a creature of whim at the moment, as various things that have previously been anchoring mechanisms have been withdrawing to some degree or other from my life. So, I've wangled longer weekends in order to spend more time with my bad self. The main difference is that I stay up later - if I don't have to be somewhere, I tend to binge and purge on sleep, staying until dawn and then sleeping until early afternoon, or staying awake for a day, night and day then sleeping in the next day. It mainly depends on what I'm reading, and how much I want to finish it, or whether I have built up a glut of stuff I want to watch on video (tedious, I know, but I'm a sucker for really bad American TV). There's a constant sense of progression - I have a tendency to want to "tick things off" - I have done, X, and will now do Y, sort of thing. Something else I am trying to do is become a lot more aimless. I suspect it will actually halp me to achieve more, as it will give me a chance to do all those things I tend to think of as unimportant, like sorting out finances and replacing driving license and suchlike. Non workdays are also handy for kicking around the Poetry Library, or chilling out with the Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum (which are very soothing. Unless you're Greek, of course). Problem is, of course, I am usually asleep while these things are open. Thank God for late opening on Thursdays... |
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