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Somehow writing Warming Up when I don't have any other work to do is much harder than when I have loads on. What's that all about? We've all been there right? Keeping up a pointless exercise for 16 years through holidays, Christmas, births and deaths and then, when nothing is getting n the way….
I struggle on with it, as always, for fear of what might happen if I actually miss a day and because I am just 282 entries away from 6000 consecutive daily blogs. And then a mere 4000 away from 10,000…. But a part of me wants to throw it all away after a meaningless length of time. Like 5718 days in a row. Followed by nothing.
It's partly that my days are pretty similar and partly that I am exhausted from the hard work of looking after the kids, even if that's not officially recognised as work, but stupidly seen as responsibility. But maybe it's more to do with the freedom I am feeling from letting go of work and thinking how nice it would be to let it go forever. And not feeling the usual tug of, “Oh no, but I've got to carry on….†I mean I probably do have to carry on….
It may return. I mean it will, for almost sure. My brain needs to lie fallow. But I fancy the job of lotus eating. What's the pay like? As many lotuses as you can eat.
Ernie was up at 4 this morning, which had some impact on the rest of my day, but I didn't have to look after the kids after 8.30 and had a relaxed time, with some sleeping and some tweeting in the bath. There's lots to be getting on with, but not for weary Richy. The BBC website was asking the question, “Reality Check - Are teenagers really having less sex?â€
Probably not less than I managed as a teenager. It is technically possible, but only just. I managed to have one half of a sex about three months before I turned 20. It is possible to have half a sex. We started, (just barely) but neither of us finished. But I think that was technically the loss of a tightly held virginity.
I then had a protracted conversation with Gary Delaney (and then other comedians) about a joke that he tweeted about Spider-man pyjamas, which he said didn't work for him live, but that I really enjoyed. I don't want to spoil the joke, in case Gary makes a go of it (but you can see the conversation in my Twitter feed). I know Gary enjoys the mechanics of joke writing and that sometimes indescribable difference between a joke that hits and a joke that doesn't. And so do I. It's much harder writing one liners than it is doing the kind of rubbish I churn out. But it's fun taking one apart and seeing if you can work out what's going wrong. If anything. In the end, I still think his original was the best way of doing it. But ultimately if not enough audiences agree then it all the analysis in the world can't change that.
Blah blah blah. Only 4282 of these to go now. Who goes first though? Me or Warming Up?
