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My Monday morning is a bit exciting. I keep appearing places (like the NSW Writers' Centre newsletter, for I will be teaching there in a bare few weeks http://www.nswwc.org.au/products-page/editing/grammar-basics-and-the-perils-of-punctuation/ - the newsletter has the new cover and the website the old, which just shows the changes a month can bring) and I shall soon appear in more places. What's more, my computer is working almost properly.

On Sunday I'm part of a Write--a-Book-in-a-Day team,raising money for paediatrics at the local hospital. More details here: http://csfg.wordpress.com/what-we-do/write-a-book-in-a-day-contest/ The other team members are:
Mitchell Akhurst
Lisa Fuller
Ross Hamilton
Ian McHugh
Nicole Murphy
Shauna O’Meara
Rob Porteous
Cat Sheely
Jane Virgo
We will be sensible and serious throughout the whole process. Maybe. And we will write a good book. That's most definite. My role (apart from writing) is Supplier of Butchers' Paper.

I had other news, but none of it is as urgent as the hot buttered crumpets that await me for lunch.

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I bought chestnuts to roast (it being winter) and forgot about them and they dried out and looked very sad and felt very papery. So I boiled them. Afternoon tea today is rather scrumptious.

I finally feel as if I'm making progress with various papers and articles. For weeks no matter how much work I did, nothing was crossed off lists. Today I got to cross two things off lists and to give a daruma a black eye. Each time I release a book, I complete a daruma. Each time I complete a daruma I miss my Japanese friends and either cook much Japanese food or sing many children's songs. Today it's children's songs. Tooryanse...

And I just realised that my chestnuts are missing a cup of tea. How can I eat boiled chestnuts without a cup of good, strong tea? Then I must write my last 2000 words and cross them off my list and I am in a happy place. Except I'm in a happy place already. Chestnuts and tea and memories of fine friends.

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I have a list for tomorrow,for I keep forgetting things. If I can finish the fourteen things on that list (fourteen - a doddle!) then the rest of the week will be a breeze. In fact, those fourteen things are all that lie between me and a normal workload at this point. I don't know how this has happened, but happened it has.

A normal workload? Finances? My life is changing into something unrecognisable.