I don't mention very much how often we do writing in the industry that I'm in, but even at my age and level (and I am OLD by industry standards, I think), I seem to have this knack of attracting all the writing assignments to myself.

It's not a good thing anymore, as much as I love to write. Because, where I am doing what I'm doing, I don't really write for myself anymore, rather, I have to constantly visualize what it's like to be the chief of a huge organization, and imagine the PR-worthy things such a hefty character has to say. When you're pregnant with your hormones totally unreliable, and nursing a very sore hip (baby is starting to press on my bones), you can't imagine being the head honcho, so I say some very absurd things in my copy.

So, totally, unprofessional. Urgh.

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The other thing is, for some reason, some people seem to think that I'm a running scanner or a word processor, and I get very very little time as deadlines. In the midst of quiet afternoons in the office, I'll suddenly get a damned phone call, or a sudden e-mail and then this other person would sms me to remind me, 'MEETING! Where are you?'

And I have a lot of things to write you know? I need the time you know? I write fast, I mean, I used to write fast, but these days, baby is distracting! Urgh!

These days, I've noticed that it's become a mighty task for me to concentrate and 'center' myself into the mood of a CEO/MD. Believe me while I *used to* be able to shift rather effortlessly into the shoes of a company's spokesperson, with baby swimming inside of me and sending mini gurgling taps across the borders of my stomach can be quite distracting, and I sometimes see myself going from 'We are certainly optimistic at our prospects for this quarter,' to saying, 'since baby is going to be really really cute and adorable…' only to frantically press on the delete button.

In Dr Miriam Stoppard's famous pregnancy guides she calls it 'developing baby's brain'. OMG, I NEED HELP! There I feel baby shuffling around in me again.

*sniff, what's a working mommy to do?*