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Oct. 15th, 2007 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewtIt is London Chocolate Week. I declare that everyone should buy me chocolate. Good chocolate, mind, none of this nasty plasticky chocolate-flavoured confection bullshit.
Two lunchtime concerts this week with brass band, one at Blackheath tomorrow and one at Regent Hall on Friday. Please come. It's free. In my first two years of doing my degree I hardly ever mentioned concerts and stuff or asked people to come but I want to change that.
I'm pretty much fully booked from now until 16.00 on Friday; I have Things mornings, afternoons and evenings, sometimes more than one thing per morning afternoon or evening. It will be an interesting test of my new-ish organisation systems. It's going to be a real PITA too. For example, this afternoon after an appointment I go straight to wind quintet rehearsal, and from there straight to choir rehearsal at Blackheath, which won't be over until 21.30, then I go home, but then tomorrow morning I have to be at Blackheath again for 10.00am. I don't really want to lug my horn to Blackheath and back tonight and then there again tomorrow morning, but there isn't anywhere up there to put it, and if I leave it at Trinity I add 20 minutes to my journey tomorrow. I might do that anyway just because carrying the damn thing is not easy for me and if I'm not carrying it I could walk part of the way to Blackheath. Stupid bloody hill. Stupid horn being too big, stupid horn case not fitting in backpacks sensibly, stupid joints that don't work right and need to be treated gently.
I asked at Paxman about the Marcus Bonna MB5 cases, which are far more sensible, and they have ordered some and should have them in by the end of the month. One of these would be far superior to my current case in terms of load balancing and in terms of being able to fit inside other luggage (suitcases etc) on occasions when I have to carry a lot. I guess that's the sensible birthday gift taken care of.
My SpaceTribe bag has been pissing me off. The velcro on the phone pocket is not working any more and it is getting caught in all my sweaters, which is suboptimal. Velcro is evil. Also the fabric of the bag has ripped in one place and a seam is coming undone. I didn't get bad use out of it considering I paid £25 and bought it 6 months ago but I think it is time for something else. BUGGER. (Yes, I COULD mend it, but do you know how many projects are already in the 'to mend' pile? And how many more are sitting around and not even in the pile yet? and where my needle and thread have got to? and the bits of velcro I bought six months ago for the same problem on something else? No? Okay then.)
So, yes. Very busy this week. So what did I do with my free time this morning? Um. Pottered around on the interwebs, sent a few e-mails. Meh. But after yesterday (teaching all day, exhausting) I really needed to re-group.
I guess I need to find some faster regrouping strategies.
What do you do to recover after a busy day, and how does that help you feel more ready to deal with the next day?
Two lunchtime concerts this week with brass band, one at Blackheath tomorrow and one at Regent Hall on Friday. Please come. It's free. In my first two years of doing my degree I hardly ever mentioned concerts and stuff or asked people to come but I want to change that.
I'm pretty much fully booked from now until 16.00 on Friday; I have Things mornings, afternoons and evenings, sometimes more than one thing per morning afternoon or evening. It will be an interesting test of my new-ish organisation systems. It's going to be a real PITA too. For example, this afternoon after an appointment I go straight to wind quintet rehearsal, and from there straight to choir rehearsal at Blackheath, which won't be over until 21.30, then I go home, but then tomorrow morning I have to be at Blackheath again for 10.00am. I don't really want to lug my horn to Blackheath and back tonight and then there again tomorrow morning, but there isn't anywhere up there to put it, and if I leave it at Trinity I add 20 minutes to my journey tomorrow. I might do that anyway just because carrying the damn thing is not easy for me and if I'm not carrying it I could walk part of the way to Blackheath. Stupid bloody hill. Stupid horn being too big, stupid horn case not fitting in backpacks sensibly, stupid joints that don't work right and need to be treated gently.
I asked at Paxman about the Marcus Bonna MB5 cases, which are far more sensible, and they have ordered some and should have them in by the end of the month. One of these would be far superior to my current case in terms of load balancing and in terms of being able to fit inside other luggage (suitcases etc) on occasions when I have to carry a lot. I guess that's the sensible birthday gift taken care of.
My SpaceTribe bag has been pissing me off. The velcro on the phone pocket is not working any more and it is getting caught in all my sweaters, which is suboptimal. Velcro is evil. Also the fabric of the bag has ripped in one place and a seam is coming undone. I didn't get bad use out of it considering I paid £25 and bought it 6 months ago but I think it is time for something else. BUGGER. (Yes, I COULD mend it, but do you know how many projects are already in the 'to mend' pile? And how many more are sitting around and not even in the pile yet? and where my needle and thread have got to? and the bits of velcro I bought six months ago for the same problem on something else? No? Okay then.)
So, yes. Very busy this week. So what did I do with my free time this morning? Um. Pottered around on the interwebs, sent a few e-mails. Meh. But after yesterday (teaching all day, exhausting) I really needed to re-group.
I guess I need to find some faster regrouping strategies.
What do you do to recover after a busy day, and how does that help you feel more ready to deal with the next day?
