I’d been letting things slip. Well, ‘we’, she had said, and at the time I hadn’t been sure if it was a rare bout of generosity: she had been blowing hot and cold for so long now I didn’t know which way was up. The bills had been coming in; final reminders stacking up on trays which had been improvised to rank them in order of priority. At work, I had taken to preparing all of my accounts at an eisel with charcoals, pencils and oils - that the clients on the whole liked this kind of attention wasn’t the point, as I had known it wouldn’t be from the start; the gesture had been noted. Otherwise there were too many things to mention, and it’s not even as if these financial and career predicaments were the most important - for me they patently were not, and my blase demeaner certainly wound up my boss more than anything else - rather it is just that these were the things people most noticed, whatever else I did being taken as evidence of the creative temperament which I was taken, ludicrously, to be for the work I had drifted into so long ago, for which so much is forgiven. Read the rest of this entry »

Food Diary

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Monday, 17 October 2005, 9:00

Two eggs, coffee

 

Ok, tired from having had too much decaf tea last night, wanking after weetabix and all bran and not sleeping until 1:30.

 

10:00 coffee

 

2* Decaf tea,

 

Two pieces of cheese-snack

 

11:40 coffee

 

1:30 two large potatoes with 1 tin of Heinz beans

 

Ok, able to concentrate.

 

18:00 creatine

 

18:45 chicken breast, my fill of potatoes, broccoli

 

Plenty of water

 

10:45 fruit and fibre – didn’t sleep immediately, but I had been sleeping later most days

 

 

 

8:45 four slices brown bread, 2 eggs and two slices of ham

            A coffee

 

9:15 a decaf

 

A reverie on The journal, drift off very quickly after sitting at the computer. Otherwise ok.

 

9:30 a decaf

 

Lots of water

 

13:30 a baked spud from town, with beans and butter.

 

18:30 grilled salmon, potatoes and brussels

 

22:30 weetabix and All bran with milk – unable to sleep for a good while

 

19th October

 

8:20 coffee, strong, black

 

 

9:30 two eggs

 

12:00 a sandwich on brown bread – chicken salad from a shop

 

14:10 half caf coffee – reveries, unable to concentrate much.

 

13:00 Decaf tea with milk

 

2* 2 Weetabix and All bran with unsweetened soya milk

 

13:33 tired.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 20 October 2005

 

8:45 two eggs

 

Three coffees over morning

 

Creatine

 

12:45 some beans from a health food shop, fried grated carrot, onion, cider vinegar and malt vinegar, peppers and soya meat replacement

 

Feel great

 

creatine

 

18:45 potatoes, broccoli, brussels, two pork cutlets

 

Feel fine

 

21:45 two weetabix and all-bran with soya milk

 

Friday

 

Two eggs

 

Lunch: beans from the day before, toast with cottage cheese and mushrooms, banana

 

Dinner?

 

Supper: two bowls of muesli with milk. Next day felt terrible. Farting all the while, but proper rough in the morning, and didn’t sleep very well.

 

Monday, 24 October 2005

 

Breakfast – two eggs and banana

 

Two coffees

 

Lunch all day breakfast, including 2x fried bread and a little toast – a slice. Beans, sausage, bacon. Feel fine.

 

Coffee with milk

 

Creatine 2g at lunch.

 

 

Feel fine all day.

 

Dinner: stew with potatoes.

 

 

Supper two x weetabix and all bran

 

 

 

 

Friday, 28 October 2005

 

Seven and a half hours sleep, got up at eight

 

9:30 1 egg and two Weetabix with All Bran and milk

 

Flitful in the morning, from Hasek to Punctured to Guardian

 

Two coffees

 

11:25 coffee half-caf

 

Saturday, 29th October, 2005-10-29

 

8 hours sleep, up at nine

 

9:30 Breakfast, banana and an apple

Two coffees

 

A Ginsters and cottage pie, potatoes and pork for lunch, an apple for dessert

 

More coffee. Perhaps two half-caffs. Lots of drinks of cranberry juice diluted with plenty of water.

 

Handful of nuts when already restless and wondering about depression – 17:00?

 

 

18:19 feel very restless, though I have been tidying, and usually feel this way. Feel I should be doing something, and feel the dilemma of it being Saturday and having told Fletch I would be around to go out. Feel I have committed to working out and so on, have committed to lots of things, and that I have limited time to write the new novel.

 

Sunday, 30th October

 

A morning run. Perhaps 3 miles – start/stop

 

Monday, 31st October, 2005

 

Tuesday, 1st November

 

A run before dinner 3 miles

 

Masturbating to finish day, wasting time and sleep.

 

 

Two eggs for breakfast and a coffee.

 

No further coffee, but one decaf tea, and water.

 

 

13:00 Baked spud in town with cheese and beans

 

Back home. 14:00 protein shake with milk and water, and creatine.

 

16:30 cornflakes and two grain bars – sweet, with raisons

 

 

Friday, 04 November 2005

9:00 wake

 

Breakfast – cheese, coffee, corn flakes egg

 

Slept too little, came back from Pak Choi’s after a Ploughman’s sandwich and two cans of guiness. Then had Corn Flakes and didn’t go to bed until late, despite feeling tired.

 

Feel tired and restless now.

 

 

 

17-04-06 17:23

 

Breakfast, late: Gluten-free muesli, low-GI, with Soya milk. Green tea.

 

Another green tea around 12. GF high GI rice cereal with soya milk.

 

Lunch: GF pasta high GI

 

17:26 antsy, pressure in head. (I’ve observed this several times after pasta now.)

 

19:40 run = 3 miles

 

20:00 a ridiculous amount of chocolate

 

28-04-06 20:11

 

Gluten-free bread for breakfast with egg and Yakult.

 

Two Yakult and two slices of Irish tea bread before dinner.

 

Very unable to concentrate. Feeling that this is all the time. That it has never been otherwise.

 

21:11 a few hours after dinner – better able to concentrate. Still reveries, but better.

 

29-04-06 15:20

 

Yakult and Cabbage juice first thing

 

Gluten/dairy free white bread with poached eggs for breakfast.

 

Risotto for lunch at around 15:00

 

Drifting off throughout the day. Difficulty speaking – it’s a chore to force the words out.

/ one hour or equivalent

> significant breakthrough

~ wavering

< significant hold-up/stall

* prioritised (de facto)

.. slow steady

# external glitch

October 2005

In Progress

Job Searching

Nutrition:

Potatoes not Prozac

Website – autism

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