I write this on my way to a student on a bus where someone just checked the driver was going to the shown destination, which I’d just asked when getting on. It’s a journey that takes me 45 minutes each way, so for a one-hour lesson, I’m looking forward to ending. Usually I also then have to walk half an hour to another student, but it’s half-way home, so I hope I can continue in the new year with this student so it’ll be a short walk away.
Last weekend I saw Jimmy Eat World and PUP, which was so much fun! The next day I saw my friend off, who is leaving the country with her partner tomorrow! I then spent the whole of Sunday working and studying. Even if I hadn’t had such a social Saturday, it’s what I imagined I would do anyway, though I hope to fit in a duvet day before the end of the year!
Otherwise, it has been a typically routined week, with my clinical placement on Mondays and Wednesdays, university of Tuesdays (where I’m enjoying the ceramics sheds, including my first time glazing), and a full day of back-to-back lessons on Thursdays. Friday is my least hectic day, and I want to keep it that way. I still have lessons, but it also means I can start the day with yoga, get some chores done, and I’m also due to have some study support sessions in future. The tutor becomes the tutee. However, today time was filled by a Zoom call with a potential event partner for the She Grrrowls project I’m working on, pending funding, from June next year.
Watching: The Simpsons, Big Boys, TOWIE, Interior Chinatown
Reading: Community as Doctor by Robert Rapoport, Sexy but Psycho by Dr Jessica Taylor, In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (audiobook), The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (audiobook), Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker (audiobook), A Matter of Security: The Application of Attachment Theory to Forensic Psychotherapy by Friedemann Pfäfflin
Podcasts: What Now? with Trevor Noah, This Jungian Life
Music: Jimmy Eat World, PUP, Weezer, AURORA, Britney Spears, Regina Spektor
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Poet on page and stage. Creator of She Grrrowls. Facilitator. Writer. 