Rise 06.25. In PJs and Totes respond to Tone Deaf commenters. A tiny treasured group which must be cosseted.
Assisted by Jonas Kauffman on YouTube, rehearse Schumann's Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome. Wearing earphones, singing sotto voce since VR sleepeth. The fast staccato bits especially hard.
Consider doing a post: a list with coloured cannonballs, it's easier than writing. My austere life? Must avoid referring to advanced age.
Complete final preparation of Opening Bars - how V taught me this and that. Dedication reads: "To V who made it happen. To VR who said it should happen". Despatch to printer.
To filling station for The Guardian
Ten pages of Fred Vargas' Pars vite et reviens tard. Alas, Pat, French teacher, not well so no Friday lesson. Write her note about linguistic misadventures chasing up three-pin plug adapters in France.
Diet-day lunch. Cuppa-Soup plus half-tsp chili sauce. Apple, satsuma, black coffee. Eagerly read about Trump foolery. Doze on couch, a sensuous delight.
Glance glancingly at novel, Second Hand, rejected by two dozen agents. Virtually ready for vanity printing.
Choose photo of two urinals for front cover of short-story collection, Two Homelands.
More Schumann.
Look longingly at fifth novel, Rictangular Lenses, 28,572 words done. A low priority at the moment.
Ensleeve two guest-room duvets as favour to VR, her arms being shorter than mine.
Read a sonnet written four years ago. Tiring now. Creativity at low ebb.
Go downstairs. Watch Simpsons re-run. Slaver at thought of microwaved diet dinner.
Why diet? Why on earth?
ReplyDeleteVanity (When I wear all black I look like James Bond). Logistics (I rise out of the bath like Botticelli's Venus. Well, sort of.) Parsimony (My old clothes still fit). Health (It's only one adjectival step from Obese to Morbidly Obese.) Habit (I've been doing it for two or three years.) Boastfulness (To prove I can.) Aesthetics (I want to sing like a pro singer, not look like one.)
ReplyDeleteEnough?
Ach! Ich habe dein' Geburtstag verpasst? Also, sehr spät, aber ich wünsche Dir von aller Herzen ein' wunderschönes Lebensjahr, lieber Robbie!! Prost!!
ReplyDelete(Love the idea for your story cover.)