the writing wrestling the
Oct. 30th, 2009 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321I'ts 7:07 on Friday morning. I've not had coffee. The garden has autumn colours. I'm wrestling with the writing life (or non-life), that's why I haven't posted much. I have an Arvon-debriefing post scribbled in my notebook! So it will be posted soon. Today I'm giving a public lecture at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Last week I visited Wolverhampton Art Gallery to research a catalogue essay for them. And in January I'm giving a paper at a conference in Manchester. So I'm writing and publishing again! Just not any fanfic. Or novel.
This is hard!
Also, t'sons were both gone for the first part of half-term and I did not like it. Not one bit. It was like a portend of the future when they'll both be gone to uni and it'll just be t'h and me tumbling pointlessly around the house. One regret I have is not having a third child, living under the illusion that I needed to work. What now do I care for my bloody work? Anyway, plenty of time to 'work' once they've all left home.
This is hard!
Also, t'sons were both gone for the first part of half-term and I did not like it. Not one bit. It was like a portend of the future when they'll both be gone to uni and it'll just be t'h and me tumbling pointlessly around the house. One regret I have is not having a third child, living under the illusion that I needed to work. What now do I care for my bloody work? Anyway, plenty of time to 'work' once they've all left home.
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Date: 2009-10-30 10:46 am (UTC)A third child would only have delayed the inevitable, you know. You'd have felt just as bereft when number 3 left as you'll feel when number 2 goes. It's one of those death-and-taxes things.
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Date: 2009-10-31 08:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
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