The first day of the rest of my life

Or a year in posts. I have decided in order to bring some form of fun self-discipline into my life that I will write one blog post every day that I can in the next year. I'm not sure why but it seemed like a good idea when I thought of it last week and seeing as I've only just started self-discipline certainly seems necessary.

I'm not going to back out of the first post by it being solely about the next 365 days. I'm going to say lots of things, hooray for me. So, in my somewhat garbled post last week I mentioned that I'm writing a book and, discipline notwithstanding, it's still true, I'm still writing a book or a three-parter. I'm going for a different angle than many people go for (not 'cos I'm special, 'cos I'm weird) in that I want to have three protagonists. I don't know if it's going to work, it has so far but it might drive me crazy. What?! I hear you cry. How would you do this!? Well I'll tell you, it's going to be in third person perspective, in a way, but instead of following around one character it will follow three. I've only seen this done in literature in Robin Hobb's The Liveship Traders, which was phenomenal. But it's going to be marginally different from that too, she had four maybe even five threads in her expertly woven tapestry but each was a different story. In my book I want to have three view points on the same scenery, I'm not going to go over every scene many times but I plan to swap perspective at different points to give a better idea of what's going on. As I said it's working so far but if this ends up being three stories - as it's telling me it will be - I may implode, who knows? This is my first book so I'm kinda working blind here!

I had a loathesome weekend which finished off a pretty crap end of (working)week. The people below me decided to take advantage of the extra hour at two o'clock by having a party. I don't object to parties, I object to music that rattles my windows till five in the morning but I don't think I'm the only one. But now I'm feeling marginally more human and that's always a good thing. I've been given, by two separate people, for unremembered reasons, the hugest pile of DVDs. If I could get my butt in gear and watch one every day for the rest of the time I'm here (not a bad idea if I want to fill blog posts) I still would have some left over, even after the 250 odd days *sigh* luckily there are a few that I've seen but even then! Eek!

So I went to Paris last weekend (I'm making good on the 'lots of things to say' promise) and it was tremendous fun. I went with my boyfriend for our anniversary, awww. I say went, we met there seeing as I am in the Netherlands and he is in London. I left my love on Ealing Broadway... But yes it was good fun, we did adult tourist things like went to the Moulin Rouge - I've never seen so many breasts in my life! On the non-breast side of things there was a guy who did the most amazing shadow puppets and a pair not-quite-gymnasts where the man balanced the woman on his head... with no hands! I was rather impressed I must say. We went to my aunt and uncle's the next day and I ate the best tiramisu in the world - it actually is and it's the one recipe I will not post! But I had also eaten slightly too rare steak with disagreed with me not a little so I had to make close personal friends with a bin on a metro station platform unfortunately. But again I'm better now so all is well. Hooray!