Something Different, Something New

As per my wife’s request, I’ll be keeping track of exactly what I’ve done today:

5:30 – 6:30: Wake-up, read the newspaper, browse the internet and check emails

6:30 -7:00: Walk down the street, buy Muay Lok magazine and breakfast (Khow mun gai – chicken over rice with broth)

7:00 – 8:00: Eat breakfast, read Muay Lok, try and figure out four fighters from a show 6 weeks ago

8:00 – 9:00: Meeting with the wife

9:00 – 10:30: Out for coffee and to pay my cell phone bill since for some reason I was unable to do so online like I normally do.

10:30 – 11:30: Downloaded and reviewed a show from Thailand to figure out which fighters fought in it.

11:30 – 12:30: Read – browse the internet for information

12:30 – 1:30: Walk down the street to buy a Pepsi and some chicken to make chicken sandwich with. Read, check out photos from an online gallery.

1:30 – 2:15: Read Maxim article on the hyena men of Africa, search for submission guidelines for Maxim. I have never been able to find any of their submission guidelines which makes it a little difficult but not too much so – I’ll need to call them tonight as I’ve got an idea I’d like to pitch.

2:15 – 2:30: Prepare VSH player to record Oleydong’s fight. It’s the next best thing to being there. Fixed sound problem; my wife taped the last fight, Veeraphol’s, and unfortunately there was no sound. This is now fixed.

2:30 – 3:00: Browse online art galleries / check out what my photos look like when they’re filtered

3:00 – 4:30: Watched Oleydong Sithsamerchai vs. Junichi Ebisuoka (17-11-3, 7 KOs)

4:30 – 5:00: Ate dinner (rice with egg)

5:00 – 6:30: Wrote article for the Phuket Gazette newspaper

6:30 – 7:00: Walk down to 7’11, get a Pepsi, some cooking oil for the wife and some Cocoa Crunch cereal for the kids (their favorite)

7:00 – 8:00: Read Irrawaddy Magazine / Browse the internet and read

8:00 – 9:00: Review The Ring ratings and the alphabet ratings, final edit of Boxing Digest article (Sahaprom – Malinga) and The Fist

9:00 – 11:00: Watched TV, relaxed

11:00-11:15: Called Maxim, pitched idea

11:15 – 12:30: Watched TV, relaxed

12:30 – 12:35: Responded to some British wanker’s not so smart-ass comment

Sleep

That’s it – that was my exciting day. Like I wrote before, sometimes the life of a journalist is great – fun, relaxing, full of unique experiences, near perfect. Others, well…other’s it monotonous.