girls that never diary: week 70

GIRLS THAT NEVER DIARY is a (temporary) series where I try, once again, to create a daily writing practice. This time I’m also trying to reset some of my associations around writing, because my brain is tired of only wrestling with things that hurt me whenever I sit down to write. I’ve started writing these little diaries in my notes app, and they have mostly been helpful in that they get me to write something, and also in that they help me, when I reread them, answer the question for myself about what it is that I actually do all day, as a freelancer with barely any relationship to routine, as a writer who isn’t writing very much these days. I’ll send these out once a week until my brain is fixed.

FRIDAY

I snooze til 8:30 then get up to make the usual coffee for now and tea for later, eat some yogurt with honey and pumpkin seeds and apple slices, then shower and get dressed for the day. I watch two back-to-back graduate presentations then meet with a student to finalize the semester’s study plan before lunch. At lunch (brown rice, roast chicken, sweet potatoes) I chat with another student about a revision then head to Mahtem’s craft talk which is very beautiful. Back to my room after to nap then Chris and I go to the gym for “leg day.” I quickly rinse off after then head to the residency celebration where I sit with fellow poets and eat falafel from a buffet. I take Dewi a to-go plate and we chat for a bit before I head back to my room to mark up some student work then go to bed around 11.