2025-05-05
• weeknotes • 559 words
My weeknotes for 2025-04-28 to 2025-05-04.
I've been again this week fairly disciplined about actually writing my diary, and as a result I have actually made it a lot easier to write this.
Decently productive. I can't complain, at least. Work is the main thing that plagues me, and plague me it really does.
I set up Hinge! After all, I decided to do a mixer called "Bored of Dating Apps" and figured I should probably try dating apps.
I've realised in doing it I have very few good photos of myself.
And I got my first like on Hinge! (The next one didn't happen until the week after mind, maybe I actually need some better photos)
In the evening, we went to the allotment and sorted out the pile of brambles that we cleared from the path on Sunday.
The last day of April. Work was subpar and I'm being plagued by some things that are a nightmare to deal with, and which I don't really have the time for.
At lunch, I went to Olave's church and listened to a sax quartet. Really good!
Then, in the evening, I went to Moorgate, sat in the Barbican briefly (had a very tasty cinnamon bun) and then to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to listen to piano. This was absolutely amazing: the pianists are so incredibly fluent it is unbelievable.
At lunch, I saw Trio Notturno playing at the church, violin viola and guitar. The guitar is from 1820, which is really cool.
In the evening, I again went to GSMD and saw strings: cello, harp, viola. The girl playing viola seemed absolutely terrified (but still played very well) and the harp was downright exquisite.
Work was not incredible as it hasn't been the past while (same issue plaguing me, haven't had time to deal with it) but, in the evening I went for Thai with my mum. Lovely! For dessert we had some hot coconut milk and bananas as well, which was really really good...
I also had my usual chilli tofu on the side, which is silken tofu and has the texture of raw egg. I really enjoy it somehow.
I got a few chapters of Poemander edited, and tried to print it but failed twice. I know what the issue is though, I just need to rotate the sheets when I flip to print on the other side.
We went to the allotment and then I went to my sister's in the afternoon, who gelled my nails. It's to stop me biting. On her recommendation I didn't get them painted black, and will save it until my nails have grown out a bit and it looks better.
I played some Out on the Ocean on mandolin, tried a bit of violin (I really need to start lessons at some point), and did some Latin.
In the morning I pulled a muscle in my neck, which was excruciatingly painful. As such, I was reliant on ibuprofen throughout the entire day. I tried to install BL3, and cleared a fair bit of space off of my computer. My plan is to clear everything and fully reinstall the system (it might be worth this being a recurrent thing, say, each year, to prevent buildup of cruft) and edited some more chapters of Poemander (I am adding in the vowel lengths, mainly).