Journal

Mondays, mondays.

Oh, look, it’s Monday. What a surprise.

This week, I’m going back to camp for some physical training before my IPPT. That’s a ways away, so this thing will last a few weeks.

Apart from that, I’m also gunning for a giant milestone with respect to my current project. I think I might hit it by tomorrow or Wednesday. I can’t really tell. I’m unpredictable in that sort of way, even as I try to assert a degree of routine into my work. The thing that remains predictable, however, is that I’m a relatively slow worker.

My book club is supposed to get started next week, so this week will likely be used to make preparations of some sort. Saying that is comforting because it makes me feel like there is something to prepare for. The truth is, I don’t actually know. We’re doing Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes (did I say that already?) and taking it all very slow. I hope it’s a nice book, and I hope we talk about interesting things. Most of all, I hope it’ll be fun.

I think new furniture is supposed to arrive this week or the next. My bookshelf is one of the pieces, and it looks like we’ll be sorting the whole library all over again. I’m considering sorting books by different categories, and by first names instead of last (a practice that I have in place now), and we’re also thinking about ways to expand the storage capacity since we don’t have all that much room and the number of books is only going to get larger.

I should drop by at IKEA one of these days and get those lovely glass things that look like candy containers. Do you call them bottles? flasks? I was all rather sure that there was a specialised name for them; I’m not so sure anymore. I want to use those for my pencils.

I’m looking for nice art. Maybe some natural history would be nice. I’m putting it on one of the walls. Whichever wall remains. Any suggestions? I’m trying to make it a bit compatible with my lumadessa prints and the rest of my furniture.

Right, onto work.

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