New York City Life

7.00am Wake up
7.20am Get out of bed. Shower, make coffee
8.00am Leave house, after eating toast, printing freelance proofreading script, kissing wife.
8.10am Catch subway train. Sit and proofread a TV script about Argentinian cattle farmers translated into English from German.
8.40am Disembark. Enter current place of work still reading script. Fold script and put away as elevator reaches right floor.
9.00am Start intense, finickety work. Consider bringing in sunglasses the next day, and disregard the idea for the 8th time.
12.00midday Stop work, head to office, sit, eat sandwich whilst continuing to proofread script, editing with a too-thick pen which you know will be hard to read later.
1.00pm Stop lunchtime freelance proofreading. Start the afternoon's work.
5.30pm Stop day's 9-5 work, walk to Times Square. Meet and kiss wife. Catch subway home. Proofread a bit en route.
6.00pm Arrive in Queens. Rush home, change.
6.30pm Arrive at tennis courts, worrying about the feeling of imminent rain on the wind. Play tennis anyway.
7.25pm Stop tennis, kiss wife. Return home.
8.00pm Go out on errands. Grocery shopping, drycleaning, ATM.
8.40pm Shower (again). While in shower hear wife bemoaning fact that most of the OC is in fact over. Do small victory dance. Wife orders Chinese food.
9.00pm Sit down to Chinese food, watch half of Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
9.15pm Embarrass self in front of wife at how excited you are to see a childhood film.
10.00pm Start proofreading.
11.30pm Finish proofreading. Return script to Germany via email.
11.34pm Fall asleep.

So that's what I'm off to do. Krissa has fallen asleep on the futon behind me, bless her, and her entirely deniable yet cute little falsetto snore is calling me to rest.