Day in the Life 1: Possibly TMI About Domestic Chores

Well, given my home computer has gone from 'mostly dead' to 'all dead' (and even before that, it resided in dial-up hell) this 10am check-in is my first 'day in the life' post, and will be mostly filled with an account of pottering aroud the house this morning.

The chores have fallen behind a little, as I took to my bed on Monday with a bout of influenza - rather Victorian-romantic-heroine-ish, but with a messier bed and more nausea - and now my sister, who I share a house with, is ill as well. So the day started with a wake-up tap at the window from the puppy-dog around 6.10am, with getting up postponed until 6.30 when my radio alarm piped up with the latest on the Dockers Darwin debacle (oh, boys... ). Feeding the dog is, of course, the first priority, then watering the potplants, and while the dog is out of the way, sweeping the kitchen floor. Breakfast of OJ and vegemite toast - because if there is a time for gourmet experimentation, it isn't breakfast - and taking out the compost, doing the dishes, quick clean of the bathroom, shower and dress. The picture above is of the puppy-dog refusing to be compromised by being caught on film chewing on one of the essential fashion accessories for chores-doing on cold winter mornings - a knitted Peruvian llama hat. (Think of Jayne's knitted hat in Firefly, change the colour scheme to black, grey and white and add stylised llamas.) The other essential. of course, is ugg boots, though I feel rather sartorially inadequate in my plain uggs compared to the hot pink boot versions I saw parading around the library as I arrived.

At this point, heading to uni meant hitting peak hour traffic, so in the interests of reduced fuel consumption, the planet and my sanity, I worked on another article. I'm proof-reading the forthcoming volume of Studies in WA History, and my schedule for having it all done by Friday was thrown by Monday. I'm thinking about a longer post on the process of proof-reading sometime because (geekily-enough) I find it quite fascinating. But I finished the article, left supplies of lemonade and the phone with my sister, and headed in to uni. And now I'm blogging, which takes me up to the present moment in one of those crazy reflective spirals, so I think I'll hit publish and get on with my day.