Productivity! Running! Music! Shoes!
Jan. 3rd, 2019 10:32 pmWell, the year seems to be starting pretty well. I finished off both the part time contracts I had just before Christmas, so I got to follow a fairly hectic festival with a week and a half of very few commitments.
I've switched to using todoist to manage my task list, and so far am finding that it's meeting my needs better than most of the things I've tried before. We'll have to see how well that holds up once I get back to work and travelling and life gets generally more hectic, but I'm feeling pretty positive about it so far, and making absolutely storming progress on getting through things. I've done an important and time-sensitive bit of personal admin that I'd been putting off for literally years, and managed to get the church accounts to the auditor an astonishing three days after the end of the period they're covering.
I've been doing quite a bit of running as well. On New Year's Day![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
robert_jones and themidnightgirl and I all did the annual double Parkrun. I decided it would be a good idea to get a gentle warm up by jogging to the first one, but then like a numpty I left without my barcode, and by the time I'd realised and run back to get it my warm-up was about 1.5km further and rather faster than I had intended. Between that at making the wrong decision about which one to go all out at, I came a few seconds short of a PB (unlike Jones, who got two in a row), but since that's coming at it after a few months of not running much due to injury followed by laziness, I'm fairly confident that I can make some decent improvements over the next little while if I stick at it. I'm planning on focusing on shorter distances for the next year or so, as I've got some fairly major surgery coming up, in the form of a three part operation with 3-6 months recovery between each part, and that rather rules out an extended training period.
Yesterday I made a visit to Canterbury Cathedral for Evensong. It's the first time I've been there, and it's a wee bit bigger than St John's! The particular draw was the premiere ofartsyhonker's anthem "There is no Rose", which was both beautiful and performed very well. Afterwards she and I and hairyears retired to a nearby hostelry with a few other members of the choir for dinner and music geeking. I still get a lot of imposter syndrome about the idea that I'm allowed to make music when I'm surrounded by other people who are actually good at it, but I was conscious last night that it was less in force than it sometimes is.
As I mentioned in my "Goals for 2019" post, I'm now trying to rein in my spending a bit this year, so cutting down on frivolous purchases, but there are a few that I made last year which I was still waiting for, and one of them arrived this morning. How good are these shoes?
I've switched to using todoist to manage my task list, and so far am finding that it's meeting my needs better than most of the things I've tried before. We'll have to see how well that holds up once I get back to work and travelling and life gets generally more hectic, but I'm feeling pretty positive about it so far, and making absolutely storming progress on getting through things. I've done an important and time-sensitive bit of personal admin that I'd been putting off for literally years, and managed to get the church accounts to the auditor an astonishing three days after the end of the period they're covering.
I've been doing quite a bit of running as well. On New Year's Day
robert_jones and themidnightgirl and I all did the annual double Parkrun. I decided it would be a good idea to get a gentle warm up by jogging to the first one, but then like a numpty I left without my barcode, and by the time I'd realised and run back to get it my warm-up was about 1.5km further and rather faster than I had intended. Between that at making the wrong decision about which one to go all out at, I came a few seconds short of a PB (unlike Jones, who got two in a row), but since that's coming at it after a few months of not running much due to injury followed by laziness, I'm fairly confident that I can make some decent improvements over the next little while if I stick at it. I'm planning on focusing on shorter distances for the next year or so, as I've got some fairly major surgery coming up, in the form of a three part operation with 3-6 months recovery between each part, and that rather rules out an extended training period. Yesterday I made a visit to Canterbury Cathedral for Evensong. It's the first time I've been there, and it's a wee bit bigger than St John's! The particular draw was the premiere of
artsyhonker's anthem "There is no Rose", which was both beautiful and performed very well. Afterwards she and I and hairyears retired to a nearby hostelry with a few other members of the choir for dinner and music geeking. I still get a lot of imposter syndrome about the idea that I'm allowed to make music when I'm surrounded by other people who are actually good at it, but I was conscious last night that it was less in force than it sometimes is.As I mentioned in my "Goals for 2019" post, I'm now trying to rein in my spending a bit this year, so cutting down on frivolous purchases, but there are a few that I made last year which I was still waiting for, and one of them arrived this morning. How good are these shoes?
