Heard from a magazine in China this morning that my copy of their May issue is on the way:
They have featured me on their discovery page, with Inhabitant. Not sure what it will be like exactly, but looking forward to seeing it.
Conversation with Dan last night about the fact that everything is so manic at the moment and we are both a) exhausted and b) ratty and that c) the house is a hell-hole. He seemed to be realising that things might not ever change and that was a bit hard to fathom for him. No matter what I think about the old stereotype of the artist working all hours for the love of it, I do work an insane amount of hours. Things are especially mental at the moment though and my incredibly tight schedule for April/May got messed up by a death, a car blip and a birth, so it’s worse than I thought. I didn’t allow for life in my bad-timetabling.
His worst fear, I think, was that life is going to be a perpetual battle for time and non-stressed wife. But I have learned my lesson (a bit) this time, it has been too much to manage over the last two months and all for things that weren’t necessarily awesome uses of my time. I’m sure I’ll keep making dodgy decisions – but hopefully less all at once.
At the Taxed Skillmarket last month, Susan Jones advised me to keep track of hours worked. I have been doing that and it is working out between 10 – 14 hours a day, including weekends! I’m not sure that’s very efficient working mind, there is a lot of anxiety getting in the way of that. She also advised that this could be used to budget time for future jobs, but that you always need to add 25%. ADD 25%. Got it. 25%. I might just make it 30%.
In other real-life news! My twin sister Ruth had her baby last week. Millicent Rose, who is a divine little creature. She smells delicious and I have been quite greedy about going round and holding her all the time (when I can get past the neighbours and grandma’s – honestly!). Far more important than all the other worries. Dan is broody.
Right, back to that YSP book and student loan deferments….
