2025-03-03
• weeknotes • 436 words
My weeknotes for the week 2025-02-24 to 2025-03-02.
Another week, and another week where I say "it wasn't my best week".
I had really had screentime this week - I don't know why, it must be a stress thing or to do with a return to bad habits.
On Monday, I had a very busy day, as I had to get shopping from two different shops (Aldis, and Sainsburys) to be able to make lunch during the week. During lunch I walked up to Aldis, and had to lug all my shopping back in my backpack, convinced it was actually so heavily that it would break it.
In the evening I saw my mate and we played Brawlhalla as is custom.
Work was excruciatingly boring because of the task we were doing. I think I ended up dissociating during the task. At one point, I said to my colleague who I was doing it with, "you've got to take pain now for pleasure later", which was how my tired brain formulated "pains now for gains later".
I saw Il Trovatore in the evening. It was one of the bench seats up the top: it didn't have the best view, mainly as the railing blocked the show. A lot of people there were from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and so I got asked a couple times "are you LSHTM?". A tutor there likes the opera, I found out, and so regularly invites the college to get tickets to shows. I got chatting to the guy to my right, who worked in gynaecology and obstetrics. The girl to my left was visibly yawning in the first half, and then just disappeared during the interval. It was a really good performance though, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I have literally no notes on what happened on Thursday and can't even remember.
We went to the comedy club to see some fairly small comedians. One was sort of intentionally awkward but a bit funny, the second was... fairly standard and not my type, and the third played a sort of comedian was extremely funny. I decided to add updating /thousands and /now to my list of monthly tasks so they don't get out of date like they have.
I got up really late as I went to bed really late. We had an Indian at a new place in the evening, which was really good.
I went to the cafe to study, and then came home and did some work in the garden. Planted out a pinkcurrant, some lilies, potted up some strawberries, tidied up a bed for spring, etc.