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Humpday Chicken
Jan. 17th, 2018 10:25 pmIt is Wednesday, and here we are.
A breath for Wednesday. A breath for taking time out to reflect on the week so far, and the days ahead.
Ta-da!
I wrote two hymn tunes and harmonised one of them; I wrote a very short SATB a cappella piece for Lent 1, which might be performed then. I continued convalescing. I did some composing on the piece that was the Deadline of Doom, and I'm in with a chance at gettng it done in time. I tried a different weekly spread layout in my bulletjournal, though I'm not sure yet whether I actually like it. I did some laundry and some admin (not all of it) and some batch cooking.
The Hard
The bug I had last week took a lot out of me, and I'm slower to recover physical and mental stamina than I would like. A breath for patience.
I haven't planned all of my travel to and from Aberdeen for this term, and I'm feeling rather disconnected from my course as a result. This does not combine particularly well with nebulous deadlines: I end up swtching between being scared of my work and feeling almost like it isn't really me that does it. A breath for orientation. A breath for clarity.
I still feel quite overwhelmed: by the number of commitments I have, by the number of physical objects I have, by the complexity of life in general. A breath for One Thing At A Time.
I'm feeling quite resistant to working on Cecilia's List at the moment, largely because of aforementioned overwhelm.
I haven't been sleeping enough and that's making everything else feel harder.
The Good
I saw some of my favourite people today, and had a good long catch-up in reasonably quiet surroundings, and tried hot milk with beetroot and ginger (as pink as you'd expect, and actually rather nice).
I figured out that I need to do warm-ups for composing, the way I would for practising an instrument, and so far that seems to be going pretty well.
I've been assigned my collaboration partner for the next A Whale's Lantern project, which could be quite fun.
I've accepted that my bit of the Elysium project (aka the Beethoven project) is probably not going to be Great Art or even My Best Work, but it will still be good enough, and that's okay. A breath for sufficiency.
A piece I started writing last year for a competition and didn't finish before the deadline is something that I could submit for the same competition this year, and I'm looking forward to working on that piece again.
Quests
Elysium
Whale's Lantern
Cecilia's List
Travel planning
Overdue e-mails
MPhil upgrade stuff
Decluttering
Income tax return
The PLN
Keep going with trying to re-establish a routine
Composing every weekday
Bed before midnight way more often
One thing at a time
How are you?
What have you done? What are your quests? What is hard in your life? What is good? What is your PLN (or plan)? What is your favourite room?
A breath for Wednesday. A breath for taking time out to reflect on the week so far, and the days ahead.
Ta-da!
I wrote two hymn tunes and harmonised one of them; I wrote a very short SATB a cappella piece for Lent 1, which might be performed then. I continued convalescing. I did some composing on the piece that was the Deadline of Doom, and I'm in with a chance at gettng it done in time. I tried a different weekly spread layout in my bulletjournal, though I'm not sure yet whether I actually like it. I did some laundry and some admin (not all of it) and some batch cooking.
The Hard
The bug I had last week took a lot out of me, and I'm slower to recover physical and mental stamina than I would like. A breath for patience.
I haven't planned all of my travel to and from Aberdeen for this term, and I'm feeling rather disconnected from my course as a result. This does not combine particularly well with nebulous deadlines: I end up swtching between being scared of my work and feeling almost like it isn't really me that does it. A breath for orientation. A breath for clarity.
I still feel quite overwhelmed: by the number of commitments I have, by the number of physical objects I have, by the complexity of life in general. A breath for One Thing At A Time.
I'm feeling quite resistant to working on Cecilia's List at the moment, largely because of aforementioned overwhelm.
I haven't been sleeping enough and that's making everything else feel harder.
The Good
I saw some of my favourite people today, and had a good long catch-up in reasonably quiet surroundings, and tried hot milk with beetroot and ginger (as pink as you'd expect, and actually rather nice).
I figured out that I need to do warm-ups for composing, the way I would for practising an instrument, and so far that seems to be going pretty well.
I've been assigned my collaboration partner for the next A Whale's Lantern project, which could be quite fun.
I've accepted that my bit of the Elysium project (aka the Beethoven project) is probably not going to be Great Art or even My Best Work, but it will still be good enough, and that's okay. A breath for sufficiency.
A piece I started writing last year for a competition and didn't finish before the deadline is something that I could submit for the same competition this year, and I'm looking forward to working on that piece again.
Quests
Elysium
Whale's Lantern
Cecilia's List
Travel planning
Overdue e-mails
MPhil upgrade stuff
Decluttering
Income tax return
The PLN
Keep going with trying to re-establish a routine
Composing every weekday
Bed before midnight way more often
One thing at a time
How are you?
What have you done? What are your quests? What is hard in your life? What is good? What is your PLN (or plan)? What is your favourite room?