Sometimes I really just don't know what time it is. I thought Z had awoken at some obscene hour but it turned out to be 6 am-ish. So I decided to do some writing - here initially, then on my new project - book about a middle-aged romance (with some complications of course) and a flight to Brazil. I got a Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro guide so I could get a feel for the place.

Yesterday I took Z for a walk around the reservoir in Central Park. It's a decent walk, I forget how long, but not a trifle. I hadn't done it in several years. Embarrassingly, I was not able to finish - well, I could have if someone was chasing me with a gun - but in the absence of duress, I gave up about 3/4 of the way through. I don't know if it was old age or the fact that Z was in the carrier. As Mick Jagger says, "What a drag it is getting old."

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Rachel said…
It's tiring lugging that thing around!! I think it's great you walked as much as you did. Also great that you wrote in the morning (instead of say, checking FB. ...I am just on this anti-FB crusade lately! I feel like a different person, having gotten off it).

Can't wait to read about Rio.

Looking forward to hearing about the other novel, too.
10:42 AM
Bearette said…
from the travel guide it seems kind of similar to miami...

i wish i could take even a day off fb sometime, but i haven't the strength :)
10:44 AM
Rachel Federman said…
you did it for a while though, didn't you?
1:42 PM
Bearette said…
Yeah, but in the very beginning...shortly after i signed up...before i got hooked
1:55 PM
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