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Your Belated Weekly Update
Better late than never, so. Time for the good old weekly update.
Last week was... Such a mess, honestly. I keep trying to strike a good balance with how I expend my energy between work and other things during the week and success has not yet been attained. I feel like I had a really good weekend and spent LAST week continuing to do small good things to get my life more in order, but couldn't switch gears to being productive at work.
I was late more than once, one day there was an accident on the main road and I was on the bus for ALMOST TWO HOURS and was more than an hour late, and I just... Spent a lot of my work time on personal writing which like. I wasn't very busy and did have downtime but I do not think the level of "I just cannot bear to give a fuck" that I was reaching is good for me.
On the other hand! Weekend was good! I went to the play with my mother and my aunt at Roundhouse; we saw Master Harold and the Boys, whcih was somewhat upsetting because it addressed racial issues (in South Africa in 1950) but like... It was really good and I appreciate that Roundhouse chooses very deliberately to show plays like this to its disproportionately white, upper middle class attendee base.
I went to my father's afterwards, and dropped in to visit with Psiten! We spent most of our time playing our respective videogames -- Psiten had been playing Persona 4 and I needed to rhythm game die for both tenirabi and bandori -- and chatting and it was honestly so nice. I love just being able to spend time with friends without a lot of pressure to be Entertaining and to Do Big Exciting Things. We ordered sushi for dinner and I went home afterward at around 11pm.
The plan was to go driving with dad on Sunday, but he ended up feeling really poorly, so I went home after breakfast, did some cleaning and some rhythm game, and got somewhat intoxicated before marathonning most of Aggretsuko.
Monday was my designated day for housechores and I did! Everything on my list save for vacuuming and writing!! I really do feel sooooo much better when my space is clean and at least semi-organised (even if I am, perpetually cluttered) so getting that done has made me really happy. And then the work week!
The weather got warm and so I finally took my bike out to ride on Tuesday and Wednesday after work and ahhhhhh that was exactly what I needed. I know I read something once about the human brain needing time to rest and reboot and part of that being the however many minutes before you fall asleep, so if you have a sleep deficit and pass out immediately that's actually not good for you. And just, about our culture of being "always on" and constantly using technology fucking with your attention span and mental processing ability.
So I feel like I've been overloading myself in that regard, because I don't HAVE any hobbies that don't involve staring at a screen in some way -- I tend to watch TV when I crochet so even that isn't immune -- and this means I burn myself out just by entertaining myself, never mind with work. Biking and swimming are the two things I do where my brain can just... Chill, and I only get to do them during nice weather/the summer.
I think it's going to be very good for me to be able to do those things again.
And that was my week! But I do have upcoming plans! I want to take a longer bike ride this afternoon after I get my weekly allergy shots, and I'm going to TRY to drag my ass to the library tomorrow to rent one of the study cubicles and work on my tenipuri big bang fic. In an ideal world, I will bike to the library, because it's only a couple miles. If I'm not feeling it, though... There's always the bus.
Sunday I'm HOPING to see friends, but I haven't managed to actually coordinate that so... We'll see. And I bought my plane tickets for Boston! I am officially going to be there for Memorial Day Weekend! I've also made plans to visit my dad THE VERY FIRST WEEKEND one of his neighborhood's pools open because I want to swiiiiiim so badlyyyy. I am excited.
I feel like I say this a lot when my life is looking up, even though it very much goes in cycles for me, but... I'm going to try really hard to keep doing good things like biking, and cleaning small things during the week, and maybe actually getting to bed at the same time every night, and just. Try to keep my shit together.
Wish me luck. :')
Last week was... Such a mess, honestly. I keep trying to strike a good balance with how I expend my energy between work and other things during the week and success has not yet been attained. I feel like I had a really good weekend and spent LAST week continuing to do small good things to get my life more in order, but couldn't switch gears to being productive at work.
I was late more than once, one day there was an accident on the main road and I was on the bus for ALMOST TWO HOURS and was more than an hour late, and I just... Spent a lot of my work time on personal writing which like. I wasn't very busy and did have downtime but I do not think the level of "I just cannot bear to give a fuck" that I was reaching is good for me.
On the other hand! Weekend was good! I went to the play with my mother and my aunt at Roundhouse; we saw Master Harold and the Boys, whcih was somewhat upsetting because it addressed racial issues (in South Africa in 1950) but like... It was really good and I appreciate that Roundhouse chooses very deliberately to show plays like this to its disproportionately white, upper middle class attendee base.
I went to my father's afterwards, and dropped in to visit with Psiten! We spent most of our time playing our respective videogames -- Psiten had been playing Persona 4 and I needed to rhythm game die for both tenirabi and bandori -- and chatting and it was honestly so nice. I love just being able to spend time with friends without a lot of pressure to be Entertaining and to Do Big Exciting Things. We ordered sushi for dinner and I went home afterward at around 11pm.
The plan was to go driving with dad on Sunday, but he ended up feeling really poorly, so I went home after breakfast, did some cleaning and some rhythm game, and got somewhat intoxicated before marathonning most of Aggretsuko.
Monday was my designated day for housechores and I did! Everything on my list save for vacuuming and writing!! I really do feel sooooo much better when my space is clean and at least semi-organised (even if I am, perpetually cluttered) so getting that done has made me really happy. And then the work week!
The weather got warm and so I finally took my bike out to ride on Tuesday and Wednesday after work and ahhhhhh that was exactly what I needed. I know I read something once about the human brain needing time to rest and reboot and part of that being the however many minutes before you fall asleep, so if you have a sleep deficit and pass out immediately that's actually not good for you. And just, about our culture of being "always on" and constantly using technology fucking with your attention span and mental processing ability.
So I feel like I've been overloading myself in that regard, because I don't HAVE any hobbies that don't involve staring at a screen in some way -- I tend to watch TV when I crochet so even that isn't immune -- and this means I burn myself out just by entertaining myself, never mind with work. Biking and swimming are the two things I do where my brain can just... Chill, and I only get to do them during nice weather/the summer.
I think it's going to be very good for me to be able to do those things again.
And that was my week! But I do have upcoming plans! I want to take a longer bike ride this afternoon after I get my weekly allergy shots, and I'm going to TRY to drag my ass to the library tomorrow to rent one of the study cubicles and work on my tenipuri big bang fic. In an ideal world, I will bike to the library, because it's only a couple miles. If I'm not feeling it, though... There's always the bus.
Sunday I'm HOPING to see friends, but I haven't managed to actually coordinate that so... We'll see. And I bought my plane tickets for Boston! I am officially going to be there for Memorial Day Weekend! I've also made plans to visit my dad THE VERY FIRST WEEKEND one of his neighborhood's pools open because I want to swiiiiiim so badlyyyy. I am excited.
I feel like I say this a lot when my life is looking up, even though it very much goes in cycles for me, but... I'm going to try really hard to keep doing good things like biking, and cleaning small things during the week, and maybe actually getting to bed at the same time every night, and just. Try to keep my shit together.
Wish me luck. :')