A Day in the Life at Bread Loaf

6:30 Up, brush my teeth and pull on yoga gear
6:45 sneak into the dining hall to fill my insulated cup with coffee
7:00 Yoga
8:10 Go for the blueberries and oatmeal, skip the pancakes, eggs, hashbrowns sausage, etc.
8:40 Grab a shower
9:00 Lecture in the Little Theatre
10:10 Workshop with my Fiction group in the Barn. Stacy D'erasmo is workshop leader; Bret Anthony Johnston the fellow.
12:10 Lunch
1:00 get my mail, paper and check email (and sometimes this is when I end up taking a shower)
2:30 Craft Class -- not basket weaving but things like weaving a plot
4:15 Readings in the Little Theatre by two or three of the Fellows
5:30 Changes each day. Sometimes a special talk or panel or a Blue Parlor reading, where any student can sign up to read for 5 minutes from their work. Every day The Blue Parlor has a different theme--today food, although that was interpreted pretty loosely
6:30 Dinner
8:15 Reading by two-three of our resident luminaries--the ones with multiple best sellers under their belts
9:30 Some sort of presentation in The Barn, or readings of the scholars or the waiters & social staff who are all on working scholarships
10:30 Return emails and fall into bed
and again