Monday 23rd of April, 2007
which mostly involves cutting stuff out
I wake up at 4:30 and try with little success to get back to sleep. I get up at 6:00 and do Tai Chi stretching, then when H gets up at 6:30 I prepare breakfast, then we sit.
7:20 - Breakfast. We're both quite tired, I think, but I'm both tired and awake, which is an edgy combination.
8:10 - H goes to work.
I look for work to begin, but find that I can't find it. I send an email to the person responsible, and then look into other things. I decide to do house-stuff - firstly I sort out some piles, then folders of very old artwork that needs to be returned.
At 11:00 I go for a run. The fatigue slows me down - and I wonder if the greyness and atmospheric pressure has something to do with it, too. I feel self-conscious walking to warm up in my new shorts, so begin the run (as I began the day) prematurely. However I do manage to keep going until almost the last moment, when I come up against The Cut.
Back in the flat I stretch and then shower.
For lunch I have one of the breads I made yesterday, with Tuna fish. I watch a documentary about The Archers.
After lunch I carry on tidying, rearranging the corner of the room that has the television it. This is quite tiring and makes me very grubby, but it's gratifying when it's done. I vacuum the floor, also.
I revise Jeays songs.
Haruko gets back at 18:30 and we have tea and nuts.
19:30 - H makes dinner, which is tempura rice.
After dinner we watch a 1975 version of Three Men in a Boat starring Michael Palin, Tim Curry and Stephen Moore, directed by Stephen Frears. Very funny, but very obviously dubbed. I suppose the sound of the motor cars got in the way.
I work on an old website of mine, repurposing it and also bringing it up to the current state of my knowledge, which mostly involves cutting stuff out.
