At the beginning of summer I was pumped to get into my writing and crafting and reading. I had a long seven-week break stretching before me filled with empty days for me to fill with routines that would allow me to start the year with a bang! Hmm!
I think my first mistake was choosing to study over the summer and allowing this to take precedence until it was finished. This is no way to develop routines. Recently, a new study session commenced and will need to be conducted amidst the detritus that is everyday life – work, cleaning, emergency trips to the dentist, establishing regular gym habits, family celebrations, grocery shopping, exercise, navigating storms with Cressa, and on it goes.
I learnt, for me at least, my routines are best established during the normality of the day-to-day. About four weeks into the school year I have done very little in the way of writing, but am much better positioned to add writing routines to routines I have been establishing since starting in a new school. Of course, being sick last week threw a spanner into that plan. Last Saturday, I had the sorest throat I have ever had in my life. After heading to the doctor I had some magical antibiotics in hand and began to feel somewhat normal. My throat is still recovering.
In the midst of it all I have been reading – always a mainstay. Seems summer wasn’t so wasted, after all. As a new session of uni gets underway and I feel more settled in a new workplace I will set up those routines and prioritise my writing.
Trish Lewis 