I woke up from the alarm, wrote morning pages and – didn’t manage to make myself do anything else until it was time for breakfast. The slump continues. I did go upstairs to wake the boy but it turned out he was already awake.
His day was even longer than mine, he left the house before 8 and was gone for almost twelve hours, with a lecture, a meeting about a seminar, lunch and then working in the lab. On his way back on the subway all passengers were asked to leave the train at one point and wait for the next one and the exact same thing happened later on the train as well.
My husband and I had a short and amiable breakfast and then he went off to work in the garden. I wrote my blog post, did the dishes while listening to an extremely beautiful piece of music by Sakamoto and afterwards to „Après un rêve“ by Fauré in a version for cello and piano. I’m fairly sure I sung the Fauré for an exam at university. I’d like to unearth the sheets music and try it again.
Then I went out for my walk/run and found – again – that I had a very hard time to make myself do uncomfortable things. I basically walked all through the second half even though I did quite well in the first. But even so the movement outdoors helped me get things sorted a little:
Lunch was ready when I came back and it was delicious:
I read and played games for a bit afterwards but set myself a timer because I needed to take a shower before teaching. I also finally refilled the two fountain pens that needed it, ha!
I taught two students and did some admin, then one more student and then I gave myself a kick to sit down and work on publishing stuff. So, first I learned stuff about the app that I use for knitting. Then I made a list of all the books I pre-ordered. And only then did I finally tackle the one thing that was weighing on my mind.
An hour later I had consolidated my publishing to dos, had set clear priorities for what to do first and second and so on, and then I had done some additional research for a few minutes and committed to which categories to put the book in and the keywords I’d like to use. Phew. Sometimes it’s better to make bad decisions than none.
Just as I was really digging in my husband showed up and said his mother was in a panic because the boy wasn’t home yet. I texted him, he said everything was alright and he was one his way back and I told everyone before I could continue working.
Then I taught my last student of the day which was very nice, talked with the boy who had a lot to talk about, then briefly with my husband and then finally ate dinner.
I started writing this post, did Duolingo, made a list for today, did my foot exercises, watched an episode of ‚Word of Honor‘ and went to bed.
I hope today will go equally well.
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