Weeknotes 122: Mind and body

Properly cool at last. On Tuesday I woke to tantalising petrichor waft and visible evidence of overnight rain, and so then, yes!, it rained properly on Thursday. I was able to work from home on Monday and Friday because my flat was a habitable temperature. Please let it continue for now. Another ridiculously busy week on the (trauma)...

I realise you’re sick of hearing about this, but I’m sick of experiencing it, so take it: I hate the heat. I can’t sleep, I can’t think straight, my brain doesn’t work properly in general. I’m flustered and irritable and short-tempered. At least I have an office to go to, which I did every day this week. It’s slightly too cold in there but...

Hello there. Three gyms. Onion smell by the treadmills. My weight’s fluctuating a lot but the overall trend remains gradually, haltingly downward. I’m approaching the halfway point of Redemption Ark and the pace is at last picking up. Threads connecting! Events occurring! It now seems more likely that I can finish this, even...

How can it already be August? Unrelatedly: how can it still be summer? Another sweltering week. It’s such a relief to have an air-conditioned office building to work from. Oh, except the building was unexpectedly closed all week so I had to work from home. The heat made me sweaty and grumpy at an uncomfortably busy time. I...

It’s been nice and cool this week. I’m bracing for next week. Three gyms. Numbers all over the place, and not in a good way. I slid back into Redemption Ark as mooted. Although its ratio of exposition to narrative remains unfavourable, events have begun to move slightly faster (i.e. at all) which is helping to hold my...