really it felt much shorter than it was

[kareina]

Tuesdays will be my longest day this semester (side note: I have been in Sweden long enough that it feels funny to use that word in this context, since here that spelling means "vacation"). Today's schedule:

06:00 wake up, start situps
06:19 finish situps (and reading LJ/email)
06:34 start my actual morning workout (phone app)
07:04 workout done (today was a shorter/easier day than yesterday)
07:38 start playing dulcimer
07:44 done playing dulcimer
07:58 start walking to work
08:44 arrive at work and start my day
11:20 pause work and head to the gym
11:30 meeting with my personal trainer (who showed me my first workout routine, now I just need to find time to do it--he promises to email me the details tomorrow)
12:37 back to the office, arriving just as a friend dropped by to say hello
12:58 resume work
15:44 pause work to eat some dinner and check personal email, LJ and FB
16:30 begin Phire practice (today: staff work, acrobatics, head stands (with splits) and hand stands against the wall, and juggling)
18:02 pause in Phire practice for a meeting, during which I did yoga
18:18 resume Phire practice (more staff work and juggling,and some hand stands against the wall)
18:40 done Phire practice
19:00 begin choir practice
20:30 done choir practice, hang out and chat with people for another 30 minutes
21:12 shovel snow
21:18 check mail, look up used pianos and keyboards for sale, and email the choir officers the list so that the group can buy one, instead of us needing to bring ours
22:15 get this far in typing this post. Once it is done and posted I may do a bit more yoga before bed, since my legs could use it...

Choir was much fun today--we started two new songs, both of which are done in mixed groups. The first was Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 (which song could have been a factor in my having been a career student--it came out when I was 14 and convinced me that I never wanted a "job"), and the second was Alice Cooper's Poison (while I had heard this one before, I didn't have hearing aids then, so had never actually heard/understood the lyrics before tonight--Oh, My! I didn't realize that it was a love song, nor that it had such... vivid images).

Tomorrow the only thing on the calendar is work, so I should be home early enough to do something useful around the house. Unless I just sleep.

Comments

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Phire is?

[kareina.livejournal.com]

You may have missed the links from when I first joined them. They are a campus club, the full name of which is "Phre, the Art of Jester". One major focus of the group is playing with fire (hense the name), twirling staves (with ends burning, during an outdoor show, only padded for indoor practice), "poi" (balls on the ends of chains hanging from sticks, also burning when appropriate), even fire-breathing for at least one of us. there is also juggling, acrobatics, and aerial silks (see my current FB cover photo). Much fun, and the group is the source of the current crop of young people in the SCA, as they had so much fun at the Visby Medieval Week last year.

[katerit.livejournal.com]

Action packed days of good things seem to go much faster for me.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Me too, but ai had been worried that being "trapped" at work waiting till time to go to practice would result in being bored and sleepy, but instead I just kept accomplishing stuff...