2025-06-30
• weeknotes • 493 words
Weeknotes for the week 2025-06-23 to 2025-06-29, written actually on time for
once?
(In fact, a little bit early! I'm writing the notes up to Saturday... on Saturday. Mainly as I haven't been consistent about writing diary entries and I don't want to forget.)
Work stress still wrenching my heart like a wrench wrenching my heart, I felt generally horrific. I mainly did menial jobs, like washing up, etc. today, though did book myself to see Chris Thile in November - that will be fantastic!
I mulled over holidays, and think it will be Berlin on 02.10 to 05.10 to go see La Triviata, as well as one of Italy, France, or Norway, unsure on the exact date.
I also made banana bread.
I shaved before work, to sort out my unkempt-growing facial hair, and ate a terrible, UPF pizza after work, alongside falafels and the last of the banana bread.
Work was work, and in the evening I went to the mixer, after having a pizza at Berbere Pizza (Clapham Common). The mixer was... ok.
We had a work do today, which was... fine in terms of tasks, but I am not a great fan of adventure hunts really. The barbeque food was really quite good, and I ate two plates full.
We drank and chatted for quite a while, which was very fun. I was drinking cider in whatever form the while night. After a while, we went to a bar/club, and I got to demonstrate my horrific dancing. The great thing about having zero inhibitions whatever is that, even though I can't dance at all, I still get to have a great time doing it.
We ended up missing the last train, and unfortunately not living in London, it is not possible to get a taxi or Uber back, so me and another were out the whole night. We went to a club, danced the night away, met a few people, ended up in Clapham with them, and then left to come back at 05.20. I was back home by 07.40 on Friday.
After getting back home, I showered and sorted myself out, and started work at home at 08.30. I left to go into London at lunchtime, had a falafel wrap for lunch, and left work at five. I essentially got home, and slept until the next morning.
Waking up at 05.15 and staying in bed until half seven, I watered the garden a bit, and wrote weeknotes...
Went to the allotment to water and plant out some leeks, went to the cafe to read 1Q84 (finished the first book of three), added two more shelves worth of books into my Toshokan project (that I aim to use for tracking my books and reading - still a wip but can hopefully do the /reading page from it in time), and ironed my shirts.
Also was listening to a lot of Jovano Jovanke, and Hasapikos Politikos as well as other folk songs on the mandolin. Great music and I really want to learn them!