October 3, 2005
...write about your schedule.

6:15 AM. Alarm goes off. Hit snooze.
6:20 AM. Oldest son opens the door to make sure I'm awake. Wife jumps in bed with me and slams her elbow into my left kidney, assuring that I'm awake.
6:25 AM. Alarm goes off again. I get up, stagger to the bathroom, then the living room to keep oldest son company while he heads off to school. Watch news. High of 85 today. Isn't it October?
6:45. Shower, etc.
7:20. Office. Write to-do list. Check e-mail. Long e-mail from Jim Huang who's running things for Magna cum Murder. I'm supposed to read Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." Geeze, I'm busy, okay? Anybody got the Cliff's Notes?
7:45. Wake up youngest son, get breakfast around, get him off to school, take dog for walk.
9:00. Write rough-draft of "guest column" for Reel Life with Jane, thinking, "I'm not getting paid for this." Fun to compare the book "Sahara" with the movie, etc., though.
10:20. Heading out to the gym when office phone rings. It is a rep with the Institute for Legal Reform asking questions about why I called to set up an inteirview. Then off to the gym.
10:00. Work out. Light workout that feels hard. I was a little under the weather Sunday and I'm still a bit so, I guess.
11:00. Drop off movie at blockbuster and copy a book review of Michael Connelly's "The Lincoln Lawyer" to send to his publicist at Little, Brown.
11:20. Eat lunch. Walk dog.
12:00. Back in office. Mail out review. Read e-mail. Write book review of Sean Rowe's "Fever." Send off and invoice.
12:45. E-mail happy birthday to my brother-in-law.
12:45 to 1:15. Respond to e-mail and a little bit of bookkeeping.
1:15. Blog.
1:30. Now what? Go check mail, then work on article for bankrate.com. Work on novel.

Best,
Mark Terry