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ewtUgh, I am tired.
My dad came to visit, it was nice, although I did not end up spending a whole lot of time with him due to working a lot. We did make it to Avebury, which was nice. Full of hippies for the Solstice but still a really beautiful site, very quiet and peaceful. It was a nice contrast to be there when it was so alive and there were people everywhere, rather than like the last time (when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shevek and I went there in 1999) when it was so abandoned it was almost spooky. We packed a liunch and leaned up against a rock to eat it. Discovered that the little tea house thing has EXCELLENT cream tea, so maybe next time less packed lunch. I also had not realised it was so easy to get to Avebury from Bath - train to Swindon, then the number 49 bus (only for a half hour). There is a museum but we didn't go in.
There were people with poi. And pretty hair.
I am really looking forward to geeknappingshevek at some point and taking him to Avebury and spending the day just messing about there.
I must but absolutely must start being more strict with myself about meal timings again. A few times in the last few weeks I have turned into the Hungermonster and been all mean to people (mostlyshevek and been upset and completely unable to put anything into proper perspective, mostly because I needed to eat. I've been letting a lot of white grains (white pasta, white rice, white English muffins) slip back into my diet again and I have no doubt that this is not helping. Combined with simply working stupid hours, not keeping track of the time, and so on...
To this end, I will be going grocery shopping on Sunday, and spending some time doing food preparation as well. My goal will be to have three meals and at least two snacks each day for four days, planned out, ingredients bought, and as much ahead preparation done as possible. And the GI of all these things is going to be below 60, and there are going to be vegetables damnit! And something with a GI below 50 at every meal. And if there is something with a medium-GI that I really want to eat (pineapple at 65, for example) then I am going to make damn sure I eat it with some fat and protein and fibre (peanuts anyone?) to slow it down. So there. There is no microwave at multi-sharp so I will have to take things I can eat cold/raw ('just add water' instant food is usulaly all full of sugar and does not help me much).
(The idea, of course, is that if my main meals and my snacks are healthy and balanced, my body will be able to dealwith the odd splurge a whole lot better... but it takes planning to make sure that every meal does not become a splurge!)
I wonder how long it will take my body and brain to adapt to working incredibly long days Monday to Thursday and then having essentially no structured time the other three days? Okay, Sunday will be a write-off, planning and preparing for the week... and I hope I will not have to spend too much of Fridays doing catch-up work (although this week it is looking like tomorrow will be mostly catch-up), and I really want to do regular busking on Fridays and Sundays - I want to get a really good idea of when I can do it and how much I will get, so that if they decide to continue the scheme, I can quit working for Multi-sharp once my contract is up. So tired though... grah. I will hang on for the summer - a lot of my students will be going away in a few weeks and that will take the time pressure off a bit.
I do need to start going to bed no later than 11pm though.
And now I must go and get ready for work, and go to work, and stuff like that. I don't wan tto go... not because I don't lik the work (I'm actually rahter indifferent about the work) but because I am just tooooo tired. Maybe the walk will help.
I have parsnips. Or rather, in October, I will have parsnips, if I look after them now while they are young. It will be nice to put them in soup. Too bad they have a GI of 97 when they are cooked. I wonder what they are like raw? Eww. I will just have to put lots of other low-GI things in the soup, that is all.
My dad came to visit, it was nice, although I did not end up spending a whole lot of time with him due to working a lot. We did make it to Avebury, which was nice. Full of hippies for the Solstice but still a really beautiful site, very quiet and peaceful. It was a nice contrast to be there when it was so alive and there were people everywhere, rather than like the last time (when
shevek and I went there in 1999) when it was so abandoned it was almost spooky. We packed a liunch and leaned up against a rock to eat it. Discovered that the little tea house thing has EXCELLENT cream tea, so maybe next time less packed lunch. I also had not realised it was so easy to get to Avebury from Bath - train to Swindon, then the number 49 bus (only for a half hour). There is a museum but we didn't go in. There were people with poi. And pretty hair.
I am really looking forward to geeknapping
shevek at some point and taking him to Avebury and spending the day just messing about there.I must but absolutely must start being more strict with myself about meal timings again. A few times in the last few weeks I have turned into the Hungermonster and been all mean to people (mostly
shevek and been upset and completely unable to put anything into proper perspective, mostly because I needed to eat. I've been letting a lot of white grains (white pasta, white rice, white English muffins) slip back into my diet again and I have no doubt that this is not helping. Combined with simply working stupid hours, not keeping track of the time, and so on... To this end, I will be going grocery shopping on Sunday, and spending some time doing food preparation as well. My goal will be to have three meals and at least two snacks each day for four days, planned out, ingredients bought, and as much ahead preparation done as possible. And the GI of all these things is going to be below 60, and there are going to be vegetables damnit! And something with a GI below 50 at every meal. And if there is something with a medium-GI that I really want to eat (pineapple at 65, for example) then I am going to make damn sure I eat it with some fat and protein and fibre (peanuts anyone?) to slow it down. So there. There is no microwave at multi-sharp so I will have to take things I can eat cold/raw ('just add water' instant food is usulaly all full of sugar and does not help me much).
(The idea, of course, is that if my main meals and my snacks are healthy and balanced, my body will be able to dealwith the odd splurge a whole lot better... but it takes planning to make sure that every meal does not become a splurge!)
I wonder how long it will take my body and brain to adapt to working incredibly long days Monday to Thursday and then having essentially no structured time the other three days? Okay, Sunday will be a write-off, planning and preparing for the week... and I hope I will not have to spend too much of Fridays doing catch-up work (although this week it is looking like tomorrow will be mostly catch-up), and I really want to do regular busking on Fridays and Sundays - I want to get a really good idea of when I can do it and how much I will get, so that if they decide to continue the scheme, I can quit working for Multi-sharp once my contract is up. So tired though... grah. I will hang on for the summer - a lot of my students will be going away in a few weeks and that will take the time pressure off a bit.
I do need to start going to bed no later than 11pm though.
And now I must go and get ready for work, and go to work, and stuff like that. I don't wan tto go... not because I don't lik the work (I'm actually rahter indifferent about the work) but because I am just tooooo tired. Maybe the walk will help.
I have parsnips. Or rather, in October, I will have parsnips, if I look after them now while they are young. It will be nice to put them in soup. Too bad they have a GI of 97 when they are cooked. I wonder what they are like raw? Eww. I will just have to put lots of other low-GI things in the soup, that is all.
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Date: 2003-06-28 01:31 am (UTC)Yes, having a job is good. It's having 3 (and right now I do need all 3 for financial reasons) that is starting to get very very tiring.
For some reason I've just never had a lot of trouble finding a job. I seem to be able to bullshit my way through interviews without coming across as fake and while giving the impression that I am an enthusiastic hard working person. Mind you, it is a long time since I applied for anything that was not office work... I don't know that I could hack a retail position at all.
Probably not. Even in office jobs I greatly prefer not to be public-facing.