Freedom From The Mundane

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I started to feel quite run down towards the end of last week and after my last blog post on Saturday felt really quite rubbish. So I downed tools and took a pit stop, a little time out for myself. I figured a day and a half downtime and cut off from the Internet [...]

July 6th, 2010 | Tags: Books, Holiday, Music, notebook, Portugal, Reading, rest and relaxation, run-down, summer, tired, Travel, vacation, Video, Writing, YouTube | Category: Books, Family, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Music, Reading, Travel, Video, Writing | Comments (3)

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Long day yesterday, which by the end of it I’d to deteriorated into fatigue induced sickness. Nothing serious, mind you, just that I felt sicker the more the day the wore on until I had to admit defeat and collapse into my bed by 9.30pm. Not like me, but hey-ho.
The day job [...]

June 19th, 2010 | Tags: alcohol, beer, Books, Clark's Bar, Day Job, Edinburgh Book Festival, England, Football, Gail Galbraith Photography, portrait pictures, Sleep, special offer, tired, wedding photos, World Cup | Category: Books, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Photography, Poetry, Sport | Comments (2)

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Hellish long day yesterday. As well as my usual shift—8am until 5pm—I was also scheduled for some overtime between 6pm and 11pm. That was all fine. I finished up reasonably early and still managed top find the time to work through two chapters of GREENER and read a chunk of my book. My day, [...]

April 8th, 2010 | Tags: Day Job, Editing, Fiction, novella, Stephen King, tired, working overtime, Writing | Category: Books, Day Job, Fiction, I.T., Reading, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (2)

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I’m shattered. My eyes hurt, my head is sore, I have that run down snivelly thing going on and I want to sleep for hours while at the same time go out and let my hair down. Maybe I can do both. Scotland are playing England at rugby in the Six Nations Championship [...]

March 12th, 2010 | Tags: chapbook, Day Job, I.T, Philistine Press, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, rugby, Rugby Union, run-down, salary, Scotland versus England, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, Six Nations, stress, tired | Category: Day Job, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, I.T., Interviews, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Sport | Leave a comment

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I was shattered going into work yesterday. And I was in a bad mood because of it. Missing my bus didn’t help either. Fucking Lothian left early. Three coffees in the office didn’t really help move things along either, and I spent most of the day with a sore frontal lobe [...]

September 15th, 2009 | Tags: Biblio Paradise, cancer, cooking, Day Job, death, Family, Fiction, Lothian Buses, Marzetti, Patrick Swayze, short story, sleepy, spine-tinger, tired, Writing | Category: Day Job, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Writing | Comments (1)

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I struggled to get out of bed yesterday and was late for work by a few minutes as a result. I hate being late, but I think the lengthy shifts I’ve been putting in has started catching up with me. I could do with a couple of days off mid-week just to redress [...]

September 9th, 2009 | Tags: Day Job, debate, discussion, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, gig, live music, Lothian Road, Ray LaMontagne, Shakespeare Pub, tired, Usher Hall | Category: Books, Day Job, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Music, Theatre, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)

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I found myself in a right slump yesterday. I think the combination of my recent sun stroke with subsequent loss of appetite, and the ill-timed deaths of a close friend and family member, could all be taking its toll. I feel exhausted, depressed, and generally quite down and deflated about everything. Perhaps my [...]

July 3rd, 2009 | Tags: depressed, fed up, GDR's, gloomy, no appetitie, Slump, tired, waste of food, Writing | Category: Editorial Comment, Writing Process | Comments (3)

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I spent most of yesterday trying to lift myself out of a lag. My back was sore, my eyes tired, and I just felt like lying down and never looking at another computer screen ever again. But, STELLA won’t sell itself so it’s on with the show and on with the promotion wagon!
The weather [...]

June 9th, 2009 | Tags: Appolo Con, biography, blog tour, Books, e-books, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, funeral, Interview, marketing, Michelle Miles, Music, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, Rubina Ali, Sage Cohen, Slumdog Millionaire, Stella, The Specials, tired, Weather, websites | Category: Books, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Interviews, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing Process | Comments (2)

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Exhausted.
Up early and working by 7:30am on The Company’s network. It was almost 3pm before I was finished. A full day in other words, and it wasn’t the most stress-free of occasions.
By the time it (part 1) was over, it was almost time for the Grand National at Aintree. I had a tenner [...]

April 4th, 2009 | Tags: Aintree, Betting, computing, Day Job, e-books, exhausted, gambling, Grand National, horse racing, Hotel Rwanda, I.T., movie, Sleep, tired, Twitter, working | Category: Day Job, I.T., Sport | Comments (1)

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Back to work today and my, what a struggle! After a weekend of chilling with my mates, ridiculous drinking games, and wild debauchery, kicking my gears into first only served to rattle my kidneys and tire me out. It took several bottles of water and a very early night to set me straight [...]

February 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Bevvy, Day Job, drinking, fun, GDR's, snow, tired, Travel, Weather, York | Category: Day Job, Editorial Comment, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Travel, UK, Writing Process | Comments (1)

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Thank God it’s Friday. Good moods abounded early on today, with several parts of the universe experiencing extreme levels of excitement and fun. Gratefully, I was happy to be in the middle of one of them.
Not that anything particularly exciting happened during my day: I got up, wrote and drank coffee, went to work, [...]

January 9th, 2009 | Tags: articles, assignments, Books, bookshelves, boring, Coffee, Day Job, editors, Freelance, Friday, Headache, novels, Submissions, tired, Writing | Category: Day Job, Food, Drink, and Bevvy, Freelance, Writing Process | Comments (1)

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I was a wee bit tired this morning but managed to force myself out my nest. As I sat with my coffee reading my morning email with BBC News 24 playing quietly in my office, dawn broke. It was the most amazing display of pink, yellow, white and blue across the sky I’ve seen [...]

December 15th, 2008 | Tags: dawn, Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, GDR's, Inkthinker, Kristen King, NaNoWriMo, queries, S.A.D., Submissions, tired, Writing | Category: Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, I.T., Publishing and Marketing, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)

My head was a veritable hive of buzzing nonsense today. After the intensity of last week’s Muse Conference, a high load of freelance work, and coping with a busy day job, I ended up sleeping in slightly this morning. Waking up to rain and gales battering the window didn’t enthuse me much either, so I [...]

October 20th, 2008 | Tags: agents, Black Plague, cinema, De Niro, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, novellas, novels, Pacino, publishers, Research, Sleep, submission, tired | Category: Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Film & TV, Publishing and Marketing, Writing, Writing Process | Comments (1)