le 7 octobre 2012
today was a day of healing, or at least working at healing.
my wonderful flatmate fed me loads of echinacea and paracetamol once she got
home last night, and despite a fitful sleep, i woke up feeling slightly better
than i had going to bed. i continued to sleep on and off into the afternoon,
then spent the rest of the day cuddled on the couch reading, staring off into
space, eating pudding, refilling my hot water bottle, and at one point having a
bath while still reading. i had hoped to finish one of my books (the boring
one, which is thankfully slightly less boring now) before class tomorrow, but i
don’t think that will happen. it’s 8pm now, i’ve about 100 pages left to go,
and to be perfectly honest, i’d rather crash early and get a proper night’s
sleep than stay up reading a boring book.
interesting fact #116: we live in a predominantly orthodox
jewish neighbourhood (have i mentioned that already?). we also happen to live
right next door to one of the local synagogues. apparently, sunday nights mean
a lot of very loud chanting. not necessarily a bad thing, but i do know myself
well enough to realize that this will be problematic come heavy workload time.
not because of the fact that it’s chanting (i quite enjoy chanting myself), but
because i’m very ocd about what music/noise i listen to while focusing in on
work, and anything that i’m not in complete control of drives me bonkers. i’ll
practice meditation ahead of time to prepare for it, considering there’s really
nothing to be done about it. it’s not like a community’s religious ceremonies
are going to stop while i work on a dissertation. i may be knocking on the
neighbours’ door if the baby is still screaming on a daily basis at that point
though…
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