start the morning, while you are dressing up, with some ben webster and dim orange lights. wake up earlier so that you can allow yourself a more languid pace that matches the music. and block out the sun until with thick curtains until you are ready to leave.

then, block out the office with the felicity OST before lunch, and continue with sarah maclachan 'afterflow' on repeat mode throughout the day. you will remember all the emotions that stream through you while the songs play, more than the lines on the computer screen.

of course, near the end of the day, you might get a phone call, from someone dear asking you out to dinner at chinatown, for cheap and good zi char with all the aunties and ah peks, and then a coffee shop for teh ping and some last minute empty supermarket-shopping and a goodnight kiss.

and then, you are thus very prepared, on a monday, for the week ahead! i am going to read for half an hour and then wake for a morning dash.

i must love my mornings. then i won't miss the night so much.