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So why am I so busy?
Could it be the fact my new job is time consuming, and also highly
absorbing? Well, yes (see here!) But then I still
have other hours in the day. Train journeys, for example.
Last week I got on the train to home from King's Cross and had just opened my computer up ready to draft something, when a man sat opposite me. As luck would have it, he was a friend of mine who - up until the previous week - I hadn't seen in about 18 months. Twice in one week, sort of happens that way doesn't it?
We got chatting and he told me about his day - a 'scenario planning' session on an imagined Ebola outbreak in a war zone - fascinating stuff. I also shared my day's event with him - a data protection conference! I think I got the better end of the deal.
So no blog written that day, but what about all the other days, evenings, etc? Oh I have plenty of excuses... I am still managing to play bowls occasionally, still managing to visit the occasional storytelling session (this one at the British Museum), and visit friends who have animals! But all of this leaves me little time to think, and I need to think to write.
My job means I spend a lot of time in the car, and during that time I come up with lots of ideas, but writing and driving don't mix.
Finally, I also have evenings (sometimes days) when I can't do a thing because my gall stones have decided to play havoc with my innards. Well, some potential then for writing because at some point I will have to have a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (so glad I learned to spell that back in 2000), which will mean no driving and no gadding about for a while I'm sure.
In the meantime, here's some ramblings (above), and some pictures. I will make time in my schedule to write, because without a Tardis, I'm not going to make any more hours in the day.
Watch this space, and let's see if I really can get better at time management.
Photos: (C) Carolyn Causton. Gallstone artwork (C) Sarah Hockey.
Last week I got on the train to home from King's Cross and had just opened my computer up ready to draft something, when a man sat opposite me. As luck would have it, he was a friend of mine who - up until the previous week - I hadn't seen in about 18 months. Twice in one week, sort of happens that way doesn't it?
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| Caroline's pigs |
We got chatting and he told me about his day - a 'scenario planning' session on an imagined Ebola outbreak in a war zone - fascinating stuff. I also shared my day's event with him - a data protection conference! I think I got the better end of the deal.
So no blog written that day, but what about all the other days, evenings, etc? Oh I have plenty of excuses... I am still managing to play bowls occasionally, still managing to visit the occasional storytelling session (this one at the British Museum), and visit friends who have animals! But all of this leaves me little time to think, and I need to think to write.
My job means I spend a lot of time in the car, and during that time I come up with lots of ideas, but writing and driving don't mix.
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| A card from Sarah |
In the meantime, here's some ramblings (above), and some pictures. I will make time in my schedule to write, because without a Tardis, I'm not going to make any more hours in the day.
Watch this space, and let's see if I really can get better at time management.
Photos: (C) Carolyn Causton. Gallstone artwork (C) Sarah Hockey.
