Talk to people every day. Real ones. With Faces.
Develop personal relationships with your clients. Don’t get caught calling them dad.
Wash, dress and leave the house everyday. This is crucial to remaining part of the species.
Do not watch porn, squeeze blackheads or listen to Barry Manilow. Just because nobody will catch you does not make it ok.
Periodically get a full time job with an hour commute to a cubicle in a business park. Sit next to Clive from accounts as he loudly describes the content of every email he receives.
Understand that knowing your neighbour’s movements is ok. Knowing their bowel movements means you are on the verge of a restraining order.
Convince yourself that, given the chance, everyone would make a full meal for lunch. With six hours of marinating/chopping/flambéing.
Even if you are more creative at night, the rest of the world works 9-5 and so should you. Failing that, get up at 8am, answer your emails and go back to sleep.
Go to the grocery store. Spend an hour there making conversation with every other terminally solo refugee from normality.
No porn? Fuck that.
See? Even Jesus needs his kicks.
ha ha ha you make me laugh AC… thinks to self: “oooh a spot to put my email. Does that mean you email everyone who comments?” ~ then ponders “wonder what kind of fancy quilting pattern icon I will get (go BLUE !!!!!)” ps – is THAT your hubby? very photogenic
My house is old enough to wash and dress itself. Jibber.
OMG this is so true. Been freelance and now work the 9am to 5pm. Was bored and lonely being freelance now creatively and financially restricted – and can’t spend the afternoon in the park when it’s sunny. And only get half an hour for lunch. Relish it. I may join you again one day.
Haha, thanks for your comment Michelle. You feeling it particularly hard because it’s a corker of a day out there? Freelance world is waving its seductive come-hither-finger to try and make you rejoin the cult. Then again I haven’t seen you in the supermarket with the other conversationally starved folk trying to drum up conversation about the size of walnuts. Relish your connection with the sapiens.