received the following email last week:
I always enjoy your newsletters, but your typical laundry list of deadlines generally makes me want to throw up. I'm curious to know how you manage your time. In a future newsletter, would you be into illustrating what a typical workday looks like for you and/or any guiding principles you employ while engaging an overwhelming workload?
I've had this request in similar form several times in the last few weeks. So, then, a typical day, which means the weather is not warm and I'm not writing a novel:
I wake up some time between 11am and noon, usually to the alarm on my phone, which is currently either playing "Morning Sun" by Holly Herndon or, for no good reason, "Meditational Field" by Susumu Hirasawa. I will usually skim the iOS notifications pulldown while in bed, to get a sense of the overnight news and traffic, and fire off a couple of snaps to a few friends to denote life. Often, I will also press the button that fires an old Thames Television ident image along with a timestamp to Twitter, as a general signal that I'm awake. (When it fucking works properly.)