2025-04-28
• weeknotes • 684 words
I actually have written diary entries for each of the days, so I can actually remember what I did!
I've been doing a fairly consistent (some exceptions) routine now of going to bed around nine or ten, and waking up at four. Now, I don't actually do what I intend to on most of the days (read, meditate, exercise) and tend to while the time away. Still, it's a step in the right direction. A better step in the direction would be to go to bed earlier so I feel more energetic to do things in the morning.
Bank holiday Monday. I didn't do a great deal, apart from some garden work, made some pea and rosemary risotto for the week (with rosemary from the allotment, plus a bit of thyme too) and read the first paragraph of Poemander.
I got up at four, read some Sri Isopanisad, and did a laughable amount of exercise. I studied IF2 on the train to work, met someone from the temple at lunch, and had falafel with him. I didn't do much of worth in the evening.
In the morning, I did my reading but not the exercise. I read some Death and Life of Great American Cities, which is fantastic, and played some mando(lin) and vio(lin) in the evening. I am not good at all on the violin, in fact I can't even play a single non-open note, but I do want to get better at it. I'm floating the idea in my head of getting lessons for it.
For the morning, I slept on until 05.30.
I sat in Olav's church at lunch to eat, and could hear violin as I was eating. So I went into the church and caught the end of one Quartet Concrete rehearsing. There was a recital at one, but I missed it as I had to go back into the office. Still, through it I discovered a couple of new venues I can go to in the future (next week, actually) so that's good!
I found out I failed my RHS exam that I sat back in February. No bother, I'll take the free resit they are offering in June, and just actually study for it this time.
I booked in a few shows for myself, felt a bit depressed that Avi Avital is playing on the 15th but I've already got a booking to see Romeo and Juliet on that day, then saw my mate in the evening.
I got up, slept awhile, wrote up some Latin (I'm trying to write more Latin, with the eventual goal that I can write my journal in it - long way away yet) then went to the cafe and did some reading and IF2 study.
I did a fair bit of gardening, scattering Tropaeolum majus (nasturtium) and Helianthus annuus (sunflower) aabout the garden, and potted up some berries that have been a little neglected for... a good year at this point.
I also bought two Vaccinum corymbosum (blueberry) plants from the Range and will plant them out or pot them up as soon as I've also bought ericaceous compost.
I got up very late, and then went to the allotment with my dad. He did a lot of clearing up, and I sowed some seed about. Returning home, I played some more mando, considered whether I should take up ashtanga and violin classes some more (I think the answer is, yes, but maybe in a month or so when I've got less I need to do, like when I've finished IF2), then we visited my nan for dinner.
I booked a mixer event at the end of May, and decided I would try out Hinge. My initial impressions aren't over-positive.
A good day and a bit of orienting myself again. I tend to do that a lot. Next week will have a lot of days out (as will all of May) but especially, I can focus on mando, vio if I can, and try my best to do more exercise in the morning. That'll make me content if I do.
And of course, next week I will be doing the "swiping" each day. Yaaaaaay.