Establishing a daily rhythm is difficult for me because, as a tutor, I work swing shift hours.  In my ideal world, one wakes up, gets one’s work done, then enjoys the rest of the day once the work is done.  A childhood of farm chores will do that to a person.

So in my ideal world, I do my paying work first, my me work next, and watch TV at the end.  But if my tutoring, the paying work, starts when school gets out, the only way to maintain my preferred schedule is to go nocturnal.  Which I often do.  And it can be a nice pattern, until one has to interact with the regular, diurnal inhabitants of the world.  Sigh…

Worse is the fact that doing me-work after tutoring  is rough, because I’ll finish each day at 8 or 9, and want to go sit in a coffee shop and write for the next three or four hours.  So, perched as I am from this perspective, I can point out a symptom of our current economy that other might not see: Coffee shops are closing earlier and earlier.  Once I could count on a place or two to stay open till midnight, at least.  No more.  Ten o’clock closing times have become nine 0′clock.  Nines have become eights.  Stupid economy.

Also it means fewer jobs for writers.  But I’m focused on the immediate.

Anyway, if anyone knows of a place to get writing done in L.A., preferably on the west side, that stays open late, I’d love to know about it!

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