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Random, self-promoting thoughts by author Roslyn Carrington, aka Simona Taylor

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I write literary novels under my real name, Roslyn Carrington, and wayyy too hot Arabesque romance novels under the pen name Simona Taylor. I live in Trinidad with my partner, Rawle, and our toddlers, Riley and Megan. Ah, the pleasures and pressures of being parents to those two! There’s also my full-time Public Relations job, the aquarium full of albino sharks, the dog, the garden, the obsession with cooking (the more fattening the dish, the better), the addiction to the comic art by the likes of Keith Knight and Aaron McGruder, and the chocolate compulsion. I fill whatever time I have left dreaming about romance and writing.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Downtime

I really am a hypocrite. Always moaning about downtime this, downtime that, and how I never get any. Ran away on my lunch hour to a nearby beauty salon for a facial. It was glorious: tender fingers touching my face, sweet smelling aromatic oils, mellow CDs, birds twittering, heated, vibrating chair...and I was itching to get up.

I must have Restless Allover Syndrome. I'm lying there with my eyes closed, and this divine lavender mask hardening on my poor mistreated face, in a darkened room. Chair heating up to soothe my aching back. I could have taken a nap. Did I? Nooo. Instead I'm peeping at my watch to see how much longer I have to lie like this. What? You mean I have to lie here in utter luxury in the middle of the day while this stuff soaks into my thirsty skin for A WHOLE FIFTEEN MINUTES? Noooo!!

Incredubly, I actually called the technician and asked her to hurry it up, because I have to get back to work. I must be mad.

Sometimes, I wanna slap myself.

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