Lunch: Leftover grilled tofu, onions and peppers with tatziki, tomato and salad (tatziki, an impulse that turned out to be brilliant with grilled veg)
Snack: Apple and a cup of decaf tea with milk
Dinner: A very messy omelet with onion, garlic, mushroom, broccoli, tomato, spinach, parmesan cheese, red chilli flakes, salt, pepper; sourdough wholemeal toast; avocado; orange for dessert
Bedtime Snack: A few strawberries and Greek yogurt. So wrong, but so right.
Had a terrible sleep last night. Do not drink hot tea under a warm duvet with a hot laptop on your lap on one of the hottest days of the year. I was roasting all night long, a disgusting sweat heap. I kept waking up. Too many clothes. Underwear stuck to butt. Needing water.
I woke up at 5:15am - intentionally. My alarm was set. This was the day I get back to my crazy early morning schedule. I like this schedule. I am most productive in the early hours. I also like getting my workouts done first thing, and this gives me time for coffee and writing before getting to the gym at 6:30am.
It's amazing how well I do on little sleep when I'm laying off the booze and caffeine. For all my tossing and turning, I felt pretty good at the gym. Walked 25 minutes on an incline, progressing from 8% to 13%, then did my physio, interspersed with pushups and situps. And then the climax: a 1000 meter swim (with the help of my friend the pull buoy). After several weeks without swimming, I could really feel it in my back and shoulders. It felt great to be back in the pool (that is, once I overcame the whole hurdle of "getting started").
It's not all bells and whistles. I spent most of the day marking papers and by 4pm I felt shattered. Kept dropping things. Couldn't focus. Looking forward to curling up in bed with a COLD glass of ice water and my latest novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (I'm probably one of the last people on Earth who hasn't read it... that and the DaVinci Code). Stay cool.
