August is over. The leaves are turning yellow, there is a crisp coolness in the air, and the apocalyptic sabre-wielding mime minstrels have packed up and headed home for another year. Are you getting that back to school feeling?
This time of year, I can’t help feeling an urge to head for the nearest stationery shop and stock up on notebooks, fountain pens, and chalkboards. I want to run to school through the piles of crisp, yellow leaves, my breath forming small frosted clouds, my new patent buckled shoes gleaming in the autumnal light…
Way to make me feel old, September. I am not 6 anymore. Nor are we in the 19th century. Clearly I am not down with da kidz , with their laser space-pens and 3G textbooks and Nintendogs and what not. But what I have lost in cool youth I have gained in responsible-adult experience. So here I give you my top 5 freelancer’s tips for a productive September.
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