Working

Posted by Colin Harvey Jun 16, 2009

Mondays is my long day in the hospital, which is one of the reasons I stopped blogging then. Leaving home just before ten, I can squeeze in two hours of writing before walking the dog, preparing lunch and hurtling out the door. I work until between five and seven-thirty in the evening, depending whether there's a late supervisor.

Lately I've moved onto a sedentary role, preparing the old files to be scanned onto optical disk. It's perhaps the most tedious job of all, removing staples and paper clips from the papers, extracting pictures and other items that aren't scan-able and re-affixing test results in a way that allows the temperamental old scanner to cope with its workload.

I didn't say what it was for, and none of them of them asked me what I was working on, which speaks volumes for their restraint. And they'll see the new synopsis when it's time with the minimum of that odd deja vu effect that comes from re-critiquing something you've already read in an earlier format. I hope when the time comes I can do the same for them. It shows what can be done with a pen and a piece of paper. But useful though the day was, I'm hoping that today I'm doing something slightly more interesting...