So far this week has mostly been taking up with working. On Tuesday morning, I had to wake up at 5am for a two-hour online meeting with people back home. Luckily it was only two hours as by 7am I was just about nodding off. The meeting concluded and I decided against getting up. I promptly fell back to sleep and woke two hours later feeling much better.

I edited in the morning until about 1:30pm, taking time out to eat breakfast and lunch. I made up for not reaching my target the day before by ratcheting up a cool 10,800 words, which put me a little ahead for the next day. As I’d reached my daily goal earlier than expected, I rewarded myself by going to the gym.

Never thought there’d come a day when I thought going to the gym was a reward, but there you have it.

I went grocery shopping afterwards to get stuff to make chicken burgers for dinner (homemade chicken burgers, I might add), in celebration of Glen’s return home from Chicago. I did some more work in the afternoon as it seems the gods have answered my prayers and delivered a number of projects into my lap. It’s not exactly come at a good time, but I cannot say no so I’ll just make it work.

Glen messaged later that night to say his plane was delayed by about an hour, but that then turned into landing only half an hour late. Julian drove me out there to pick him up, and we’d timed it perfectly so he walked out of the terminal building just as we pulled up. It was good to have him home.

Wednesday was more of the same: editing, gym, other work. I made chicken and leek risotto for dinner. We watched Damages. I did some more work. We went to bed. Thursday has been a repeat actually. How exciting life is at the moment.

Glen’s on-call from tomorrow for a week so that’s a bit of a bummer.