Such a good day, i thought i'd do a blog about it.

May 08, 2012 22:18

- worked my butt off at work today. my 2nd job has been a little more quiet than normal lately, and i guess I've felt like now would be a good opportunity to do some much needed catchup with my primary job. So I've been doing 'bits extra' the past couple of days.. today managed to resolve like 20 things, including some much needed things for some very nice and appreciative postgrads. So that was good.

- On the way out from leaving work late, I ran into Simon, a colleague who I really like a lot. He is probably 10-15 years older than me, but I feel like we have a lot in common: both passionate about universities, vegetarianism, music, and philosophy.. i think he's kind of... searching for meaning in life, in a similar way to what I am?

Anyway, amongst other things, Simon and I are the two musicians of the faculty. one thing leads to another, and it looks like I'll be playing at the Newport Folk Festival. Not sure what to expect, but I can't wait =)

- Speaking of simon, he put me onto an amazing book recently. At the risk of sounding like a patronizing self-help book, it is titled "The five secrets you must discover before you die". It's actually a book about happiness - a guy basically interviewed hundreds of elderly, respected, and happy people across the world to see what made their lives rewarding. Anyway i'm only a quarter of the way through it, so i'll write more about it later.

- Winnie's in Sydney at the moment, but got an SMS or two from her, where we talked about leaves and stars and the moon. We are catching up on Sunday(!).. and so that's kind of helping to taint things in with sunshine at the moment.

- In response to colder-than-expected first winter in this house, I just found out about weatherstripping yesterday. I'll be working on windows very soon.

- Managed to make another Andrew yoga class today at lunchtime. I'm so lucky to be doing this much yoga. It's simply impossible to feel worse at the end of a class than before.

- been getting up earlier too. and eating a bit more fruit. but mostly concentrating on getting that extra hour's sleep, it really makes a difference :)

- I received a completely (and I mean utterly) random letter in the mail today, from a friend who is overseas. Can't be unhappy about that.

- Chris messaged me about headphones today. He managed to gather that the cans he tried out on Saturday were ATH-AD700's, after about 10 seconds with them. I don't know how he does it.

Oh, and i cooked something great. Just a simple red pesto pasta - which started off bad. But finished up wonderful! I finally found a use for green scillian olives, too :)

yoga, house, cooking, chris, work

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