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Nov. 8th, 2008 07:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusTo keep to my writing schedule, I'm waking up at four in the morning now. I realized that the best thing would be to wait for the daylight time changeover, and simply not alter my schedule. Though today I woke up early at three and couldn't get back to sleep.
So far I've managed to keep to my five-page-per-day quota, an appropriate number for the fifth edit of my fifth version. So life is good. Also, I'm reading the most recent work of genius by John Ralston Saul, so expect to have your friends' page spammed with brilliant quotations.
I'm at work today, listening to CBC while I do data entry. It was a beautiful misty morning, both in Verdun and downtown. I'm in the heart of the business district here. It's abandoned at this hour on a Saturday, and the tops of all the tall buildings are shrouded in fog.
ETA: Saul was on Daybreak this morning on CBC, talking about his book, about colonialism, and Canadian history. He talked about Obama, too -- said that he really likes him, and considers him a good leader in the European style.
He said he met Obama when they were on a discussion panel together and Obama was an unknown senator. Saul admitted he was worried he wouldn't be able to remember the man's last name (since Saul's first novel was entitled Baracka, I doubt he'd forget the first name).
He was impressed when Obama spoke, though. He said he told his wife -- then-Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson -- "Today I met the first black president of the United States." I wouldn't buy a boast like that from anyone else, but Saul's ability to predict future events is almost uncanny.
So far I've managed to keep to my five-page-per-day quota, an appropriate number for the fifth edit of my fifth version. So life is good. Also, I'm reading the most recent work of genius by John Ralston Saul, so expect to have your friends' page spammed with brilliant quotations.
I'm at work today, listening to CBC while I do data entry. It was a beautiful misty morning, both in Verdun and downtown. I'm in the heart of the business district here. It's abandoned at this hour on a Saturday, and the tops of all the tall buildings are shrouded in fog.
ETA: Saul was on Daybreak this morning on CBC, talking about his book, about colonialism, and Canadian history. He talked about Obama, too -- said that he really likes him, and considers him a good leader in the European style.
He said he met Obama when they were on a discussion panel together and Obama was an unknown senator. Saul admitted he was worried he wouldn't be able to remember the man's last name (since Saul's first novel was entitled Baracka, I doubt he'd forget the first name).
He was impressed when Obama spoke, though. He said he told his wife -- then-Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson -- "Today I met the first black president of the United States." I wouldn't buy a boast like that from anyone else, but Saul's ability to predict future events is almost uncanny.