A few days off
October 1st 2008 02:32
I’m having three days off work! First official and complete days I’ve had off since I began back in early December last year. (I had two days off while we were performing The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but that was because we were doing the show in the morning, and trying to go to work after a performance is usually a waste of time.)
The only trouble today – my first day off – is that it’s really cold, and I’m almost tempted to go back to bed with an electric blanket to keep me warm. That or sit wrapped up in the rattan rocking chair watching old movies.
Nevertheless, between bouts of biting cold wind outside I managed to whip out a chunk of weeds in the garden, and then inside file a bunch of invoices that haven’t got in order because I’ve been too busy (or lazy) of late. I even scrubbed the bath where the make-up from the show had left grime. (Probably shouldn’t tell you that, but I have to prove I’ve actually done something useful with the day.)
It’s very hard just to sit down and do nothing after you’ve been working flat out for weeks. Three days off won’t cut the mustard in this regard, I expect, but at least by Sunday I’m might be starting to relax a little!
On another topic altogether, it took me a little bit of time to figure out why I keep getting certain words as key words or phrases in relation to my main blog. Two particular search phrases turn up again and again: notes for Mr Pip (the book by the New Zealand writer, Lloyd Jones) or notes for The Great Divorce (by C S Lewis). It isn’t, as you might expect, that I’ve written about either of these books at length, or that I’ve made notes about them. The notes, of course, come from the blog’s title (Random Notes) and Google very helpfully lines the words up together. Good old Google! I might almost forgive them for dropping my Page Rank from 2 to zilch!
The only trouble today – my first day off – is that it’s really cold, and I’m almost tempted to go back to bed with an electric blanket to keep me warm. That or sit wrapped up in the rattan rocking chair watching old movies.
Nevertheless, between bouts of biting cold wind outside I managed to whip out a chunk of weeds in the garden, and then inside file a bunch of invoices that haven’t got in order because I’ve been too busy (or lazy) of late. I even scrubbed the bath where the make-up from the show had left grime. (Probably shouldn’t tell you that, but I have to prove I’ve actually done something useful with the day.)
It’s very hard just to sit down and do nothing after you’ve been working flat out for weeks. Three days off won’t cut the mustard in this regard, I expect, but at least by Sunday I’m might be starting to relax a little!
On another topic altogether, it took me a little bit of time to figure out why I keep getting certain words as key words or phrases in relation to my main blog. Two particular search phrases turn up again and again: notes for Mr Pip (the book by the New Zealand writer, Lloyd Jones) or notes for The Great Divorce (by C S Lewis). It isn’t, as you might expect, that I’ve written about either of these books at length, or that I’ve made notes about them. The notes, of course, come from the blog’s title (Random Notes) and Google very helpfully lines the words up together. Good old Google! I might almost forgive them for dropping my Page Rank from 2 to zilch!
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