One of my favourite columnists is on vacation ... well allegedly. There hasn't been a column since Thursday and they're usually every second day. It's really put a damper on my Column and a Coffee break. Of course, there are others... but I don't want to be disloyal.
o dear... stuffy nose this morning, and it's returning to haunt my tired afternoon. If I sneeze one more time, I'm going to have to take some time off... Now that I've said that, it won't happen again. Please feel free to use the method as hiccup remedy too.
I bought a new cardigan yesterday. It's kind of retro. I'm wearing it now with a bright green tank and I feel so ... 90's. Gosh, I'm getting elderly.
I thought about writing my own column today, in lieu of the vacationing writer but sitting in this office all day with those blue walls... gives me no great subject for writing. No wonder I never saw him in the office except to finish his column. Ew... you know - If vomit was blue, it would be the same blue that's on these walls. This is toaster in a bathtub blue.
Columns... what am I on about. I should be writing the articles that have been assigned to me. The never ending pile of scratched notes and books full of post-its. Sure I love history, but I prefer the research part of it. I feel that I should now have a few months to spend at a secluded cottage somewhere writing for twelve hours, then spending fifteen more on a Muskoka chair with a scratchy wool blanket, a citronella candle, endless supply of wonderful coffee and marshmallows and a view of the lake being serenaded by loons and bull frogs. Also, I'd like a quaint little stack of books - an even mix of classical and contemporary - piled beside my chair next to the sleeping Labrador. That's how I'm going to write my book - the one I'm not going to write, but say I will because I'm fulfilling the stereotype. I like that stereotype. My new cardigan goes with that stereotype. I wish I had the matching spectacles.
Alas, I should avoid being a poser - back to my typing.
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