I’ve been planning for my 30th Elementary School Reunion and I’ve been going through my old stuff. Among many other fascinating things is this self-imposed schedule from freshman year of college (at Wesleyan, 1999). I don’t know why this is so interesting to me — perhaps because I recall being insecure, confused, angry, socially inept and depressed — yet the schedule portrays me as being remarkably disciplined — even to the extent that I penciled in calling my parents around 7pm-ish daily (I don’t recall talking to them everyday, but maybe) and “socialize, write, read, misc” — among other things — between 10pm-X, but only on Fri, Sat and Sun nights. That was a job in itself, I guess. But even then, I had “write” for two hours a day, at least 4 days a week!

Tejas Desai
Dec 25, 2023

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Tejas Desai
Tejas Desai

Written by Tejas Desai

Tejas Desai is an American fiction writer, international adventurer and literary personality. Author of The Brotherhood Chronicle trilogy and The Human Tragedy.

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