I had the familiar feeling of trying to roll two days into one.
Went to bed too late and woke up at 6 with a start unable to fall back asleep. I used the time to go on social media, read email, buy a book and upload the paperback to another retailer.
I went for a walk/run in the sun and snow with quite a bit of frozen ground. I restart the Couch to 10 K-challenge which meant being out for just 40 minutes with 30-second running intervals. I couldn’t run all of them because of the patches of ice:
I took a shower and there was comfort food for lunch:
I spent my 30-minute break playing Genshin Impact, then started teaching early because a student rescheduled. There were quite a few students, some of which did that thing where they sit there staring blankly into space pretending to look at the sheet music trying to get me to lose patience and tell them the next note.
They also have this tendency to just guess the next note which doesn’t really work after the first ten songs or so, and also, just for general information, if you stab at a key, and I tell you it’s not the right one, playing the same key right again for your second try doesn’t make it magically right. Just saying.
At the end of the day I was feeling a headache coming up and informed a few students that my patience is definitely better than theirs (it’s not but I’m good at pretending I’m patient) and that trying to outwait me won’t work. Also, that if I ask a question and you don’t know the answer saying, „I don’t know,“ is perfectly fine. You’re a student, if you don’t know stuff I’ll teach it to you. If you don’t want to learn there is basically nothing I can do. If you pretend to know but don’t know, well, then you’re screwed and you won’t learn anything.
After that I went to eat a quick dinner right away, then went to the course Zoom (very nice, at least) and then straight to a very late session of bodyweight training.
After that I wrote my list for today and started this post wile the boy optimized my Genshin characters.
The day also brought a phone call from my doctor’s office that I should come in today for a fasting blood draw because of my check-up next week, so that’s where I’ll go next.
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