5:50 a.m. Get up. Stumble around, cold in a gray sweatshirt, narrating myself into brushing my teeth, putting on socks, letting the cat out. It’s an old cheerleading thing, the narrating, a way to separate myself from whatever I am doing. You better believe if I’m being killed by a firing squad I will be narrating it.

7 a.m. Kyle is working at home. He comes in to find me sitting by the heater, working on an article on North Bay employment. It’s unusual because I usually go into my office. But I am too cold. Kyle stands over my heater. I go into the office and am cold.

7:45 a.m. Kyle hooks the fan up so that it blasts heat into my office.

8:45 a.m. I emerge from the office, confused because I don’t understand how unemployment rates have dropped and yet the number of employed people has dropped as well. This makes no sense to me. I ask Kyle, how can this be?

9 a.m I am talked into letting Kyle buy a new laptop. Anyone want to buy my old Fujitsu?

10 a.m. I am hungry. Kyle goes to Petaluma Market and brings me back a roast beef sandwich. It is delicious.

11:15 a.m. I figure out that I have been confusing the number of employed people with the number of unemployed people. I feel dumb. However, everything that didn’t make sense before now makes sense to me.

12-ish: Leona comes on IM. We have a conversation about stuff. She is nice.

1 p.m. Idiotic PR person sends me a statement I have been waiting for all morning. It is wordy and yet totally devoid of content.

2 p.m. I become worried that I don’t have enough material to reach my 2,500 word count. Stare at the computer, frowning.

4 p.m. Hit 2,500 word count

4:15 p.m. Watch Ellen Pompeo be a total jerk on Punk’d. Now dislike Ellen Pompeo.

5:30 p.m. Become preoccupied with the word “employee” and how many times I have used it in my article.

6 p.m. Hand in my article. Change out of pajamas.

6:30 p.m. Prepare a steak dinner with zucchini and broccoli side and red wine. Have it at the table with Kyle over candlelight.

7 p.m. Kyle wants dessert.

7:10 p.m. Discussion about what kind of dessert I should make should I make dessert.

7:20 p.m. Begin gingerbread cookies with Kyle as assistant.

8:05 p.m. Kyle puts a log in the fireplace that is supposed to flame in different colors. Its flame are flamed colored. Disappointed. Had wanted red and blue flames, as advertised.

8:30 p.m. Eat three cookies. Worry about how many calories are in gingerbread cookies.

9 p.m. Finish blog entry so full attention can be devoted to Heroes.

The end