7:00 am and the alarm rings but I’ve been awake for thirteen minutes. It’s 5:00 am in BC, October 21st. I wonder if the fog is hanging over Victoria, dulling all sound. Only the distant horns of the ships can be heard calling to each other as they slowly trace their routes. 7:04 and the snooze is going off again, then again at 7:08. The house is quiet but my room is slowly filling with light. The snooze again, it’s 7:12. Ok, ok, I roll out of bed, pull up the covers, open the computer and brush my teeth, Check the overnight e-mails. Scrub, scrub, top teeth then bottom, behind the fronts, don’t forget the molars. Is the new episode for my show online yet? Yes! Hurrah, start download, it’ll take all day. 7:31, wash face,
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