The limo job, which I’m happy to have, blends well with daily HE input because it’s colorful and episodic and improvisational, and certainly isn’t a soul-numbing 8 to 5 thing. Every journey is an adventure.
The hours can be demanding but are demand-dependent, and therefore erratic (afternoons, evenings) and catch-as-catch-can.
Serious discipline and concentration are essential, but chill-time gaps between jobs always allow for HE filings, and driving around is nothing if not a constant oppprtunity for reflection, meditation and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ohm-ing, and I’m always listening to podcasts and music on the one-ear headphones.
Five days on, two days off (Tuesday and Wednesday) plus I can always get furloughs if I submit written requests a few days in advance.
But yesterday was too long (5:15 am wake-up, didn’t return home until 10:30 pm) and grinding, and aside from one morning post about the national Charley Kirk trauma I just couldn’t generate much in my head.
I was briefly diverted by Matt Belloni’s “Attack of the Rotten Tomatoes” Puck piece, but only that. So RT management is cooking the books on top of the standard “”what else is new?” about most critics being corporate-kowtowing, blow-with-the-wind whores, tap-dancers and equivocaters? Haven’t we all been saying this for years?
My own responses plus RT plus Metacritic plus what certain trusted colleagues are saying plus the HE commentariat…this combination has always sufficed.