Pieces of a Man Think it. Do it. Be it. Embellish.

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... 81 to go, and today I thought it might be worth capturing my study habits, just so I can aspire to keeping them going in the coming weeks.

I usually wake about 4.00 and get out of bed straight away, although that's been a bit harder the last few days when temperatures in Manchester have hit minus 18! It takes about 25 minutes to make tea, feed the cat, get dressed and read the latest from Tomasky. There's stuff like other blogs and new email but I usually have the discipline to leave that till later, so unless there's some breaking news that absolutely has to be read about immediately, now we're good to go.

From 4.30-6.00 is prime time for my brain, when I have sharpness and perspective (it's all downhill for the rest of the day). From 6am onwards I'm starting to subconsciously wind up because I know that Oscar will wake up anytime.

So that's it, and if I can manage it at least 5 days a week, I'm happy. The main threat to all this is alcohol; even a single drink leaves me foggy the morning after. The challenge, then, is to get to bedtime without buying any Coke, as there's a bottle of Mount Gay in the kitchen which is calling me sweetly like a Siren. Mmmmm... Snowballs and sledging today. More noodlings next week.

Labels: 2010