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Mid-Day Break

Two weeks ago, one of my favourite authors — Anthony Horowitz — was doing a virtual reading at Politics and Prose, interviewed by Shari Lapena. Usually, I would never make room for a mid-day event. There was too much to do, and I didn’t need convincing — I had already purchased his latest book.

But my schedule opened up, and I could take a lunch break and log in.

For one hour, I had the pure joy of hearing an author I like speak in the middle of the day. I made tea and ate chocolate and took a freaking hour for myself. I may go another 365 days without doing something like this, but I accomplished it once this year, and I’m calling that a win.

3 comments

1 a { 11.27.22 at 8:20 am }

Uh, that is like the bare minimum you should be doing to treat yourself. Twice in a year… and for an hour. SMH.

I’m glad you enjoyed it. I have to pick up one of his books.

2 Turia { 11.27.22 at 8:42 am }

I don’t know if you read/follow Laura Vanderkam, but her new book, Tranquility by Tuesday, just came out and one of her nine rules is ‘take one night for you’. One of her video interviews was with someone who took that rule and applied it to weekdays and now sees musicals on Wednesday mornings because doing anything in the evening was too challenging. That was a real lightbulb moment for me – I’ve started keeping space open during the week for something just for me, because traditional after work hours are too full with kid stuff. If it means I do some work after the kids are in bed to catch up, it’s so worth it. (Note that my job allows me to control my time although the downside is I can always be working).

Anyway, even the people she interviewed who got serious about their lunch break felt it made a big difference.

3 Mali { 11.28.22 at 5:46 pm }

You should do that more often. It sounds like a perfect lunch break – something to make you happy, rejuvenate you a little, and … well … chocolate!

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