baby steps back to work
Jan. 7th, 2019 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaLast night I worked on the Norrskensbard and "our songs" pages of the Frostheim web page, and then stayed up later than planned when I found out that my song had won the Drachenvision contest at 12th Night, and I took the time to include links for the video, too.
Needless to say, this morning I was feeling tired, but, also feeling hopeful that the company might return my messages and send a technician to fix my laser, so I forced myself out of bed at a reasonable time (not as early as the dawn light went off, but well before it went dark again). I then opted to take the bus, since I happened to leave the house at the right time to walk to the second bus stop and then only wait 2 minutes (which meant that the trip took only 25 minutes, which is about the same as it takes to bike in the summer (including locking it at the other end). It was a beautiful morning--I love the time of the year when there are stars and planets out when I leave in the morning. Sadly, with solstice behind us now it will soon be light when I get up in the morning.
I managed to put in almost four hours of stuff for LTU today, and 43 minutes of Durham stuff (the latter of which was half replying to an email from my advisor setting up a skype call for tomorrow. I have made zero progress on my research since leaving Durham (for good and understandable reasons), and I am hoping that talking to her will remind me what I love about the project so that I resume work on it.
Then I came home (again by bus, since I happened to reach a breaking point at an appropriate time, which, given the fact that the bus runs only once an hour, is pure dumb luck). However, since I missed out on more than 40 minutes of walking I would have done if I hadn't bussed, I did do a half an hour workout this evening. I also finally got my exercise log caught up with transferring data from my phone to the spreadsheet. So far January's exercise log is looking pretty good. While I have had a couple of days where it was only yoga +/- morning situps, other days I did more than three hours of exercise over the course of the day (between walks, acroyoga, snow shovelling, etc.). If I can just manage to do more of the active days and fewer of the lazy days, while also picking back up the threads of my research, it will all be good.
Needless to say, this morning I was feeling tired, but, also feeling hopeful that the company might return my messages and send a technician to fix my laser, so I forced myself out of bed at a reasonable time (not as early as the dawn light went off, but well before it went dark again). I then opted to take the bus, since I happened to leave the house at the right time to walk to the second bus stop and then only wait 2 minutes (which meant that the trip took only 25 minutes, which is about the same as it takes to bike in the summer (including locking it at the other end). It was a beautiful morning--I love the time of the year when there are stars and planets out when I leave in the morning. Sadly, with solstice behind us now it will soon be light when I get up in the morning.
I managed to put in almost four hours of stuff for LTU today, and 43 minutes of Durham stuff (the latter of which was half replying to an email from my advisor setting up a skype call for tomorrow. I have made zero progress on my research since leaving Durham (for good and understandable reasons), and I am hoping that talking to her will remind me what I love about the project so that I resume work on it.
Then I came home (again by bus, since I happened to reach a breaking point at an appropriate time, which, given the fact that the bus runs only once an hour, is pure dumb luck). However, since I missed out on more than 40 minutes of walking I would have done if I hadn't bussed, I did do a half an hour workout this evening. I also finally got my exercise log caught up with transferring data from my phone to the spreadsheet. So far January's exercise log is looking pretty good. While I have had a couple of days where it was only yoga +/- morning situps, other days I did more than three hours of exercise over the course of the day (between walks, acroyoga, snow shovelling, etc.). If I can just manage to do more of the active days and fewer of the lazy days, while also picking back up the threads of my research, it will all be good.