{Searching for a way in. Postcard collage, 2008.}
Twenty-three things for the twenty-third of February, for no particular reason other than I woke up earlier than I feel I ought and my head be still obscured by sleepy haze.
1. Try as I might, I am not a natural earlier-riser.
2. The writing of grant proposals cannot be put off forever.
3. Budgets are written in a language that is entirely new to me.
4. I should never have allowed the man at a never-before-frequented sunglasses store to tighten the glasses I wear to read and type up proposals.
5. Now instead of sliding off my nose they cause the spot behind each ear to ache and irritate.
6. They now also sit jauntily up on the right.
7. It is a good thing I only wear my glasses at home when I am working.
8. I should wear them more often than that but a part of me has never recovered from an ill-chosen pair of red glasses I wore in early teenage years.
9. I should take better care of my glasses; they cost me my left arm and, let’s say, left leg too, for benefit of Monday list.
10. Try as I might, there is just no extending the length of some days.
11. A deadline of the 2nd of March (for aforementioned proposal) draws ever closer.
12. Such proposals might be easier to write if I could understand the intricate differences between aims, objectives, motivation, creative methodology, rationale, concepts… and so on and so forth.
13. If I invested but a quarter of the time I spent grumbling about such things it would be over and swiftly so.
14. I am none too good at taking my own advice.
15. And so it is, I often grumble of the weather and her excessively hot spells, too.
16. Warm weather, it has to be said, agrees with my muscles.
17. They are bendy and pliable.
18. At least, they are in yoga class.
19. At home, they tend to seize up.
20. I rise from the floor (in cobra pose to type on my macbook) and look for all the world, given my posture, like a wizened old crone.
21. Can I be aging already?
22. Simple things are sure proving harder.
23. No, you are right. I am being silly.
+ Lest you missed it earlier, a colony of fungi.
{Looking for a way out. Postcard collage, 2008.}
