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  i meant to do a #ThreeGoodThings but can you just pretend i did? therapy haircut laundry i dunno.

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  #ThreeGoodThings • worked in a café this afternoon, which i’ve not done for a while, a very relaxed place, stayed for four hours, bought drinks and snacks only. • while there, finished a non-urgent job that had been hanging around a bit too long • and, did a bit more on the piano reduction, and sent it (just over half-way through) to the composer for feedback. those two jobs both emailed by 3.30 this afternoon, at which point i decided the weekend had started, and i have had a relaxed evenin...

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  #ThreeGoodThings • i can afford to put the heating on (a bit anyway). telling myself this so i don’t fall into a despond of cold extremities. • realised a thing (not that thing, a different one) which is important and will be taken to therapy. hoping this will remind me. • good progress on piano reduction over the past two days. not feeling behind any more.

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  #ThreeGoodThings • the little cello mic arrived (gonna sneak into a folk gig next week) • got a copy-edited score back to a client (this one could have been a catastrophe because i changed the order i was doing things without checking with the client, and i might have had to redo a lot of work, but it was all fine in the end) • changed bedding, and have activated the winter duvet, no time like the now

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  #ThreeGoodThings (shady version) • made a kind of omelette for dinner. it was not particularly enjoyable but it used up two vegetables and half my eggs, all of which needed using. so that was good. • worked either side of therapy, and again a bit after dinner, which i shouldn’t do, but it is a kind of replacement for most of tomorrow, when i am out. so that was good. • did a bit of modern cello practice, looked at the trout for new year, but without being able to decide on anything, as i’d pr...

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  today in surprising illustrations in otherwise boring old books. found as a kind of frontispiece in ‘everyday things and their story: the romantic story of modern industry and how it supplies our daily needs’ published by odhams press, no date. i think it’s well done. no artist attribution in the book, sadly.

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  some untethered low-level anxiety floating about in my head; no clear source, no way to address it, an ungraspable miasma sticking in my nostrils (sayeth the anosmic, hah) that will dissipate eventually, i imagine

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  was just watching andrew graham-dixon on french art (an old series being shown again on bbc4 just now). he is always interesting, though you have to keep an eye on when he shifts from fact to opinion. but he was very good on chardin's la raie (the ray). it's a great painting and he contextualised it well.

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  today at the charity shop (which has a strong track record of supporting lgbtqia people) i had a discussion with the manager about its stance on selling material produced by the transphobe that is jkr. the charity's stance is, we accept it and sell it. i suggested/requested that the charity should stop selling it, because as things stand it looks hypocritical. the manager, who i like and respect, will take my request up the chain of command. we will see. #lgbtqia #takingastand

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  for some reason this occurred to me: F1 but without the cars: just distance runners going around a (much smaller) track dozens of times, but it’s all about shoe technology. spring-loaded shoes okay, but no batteries. there are pitstops where they can change shoes. there are two days of qualifying to determine who gets to start at the front, elbows out. you can impede others trying to overtake, but if someone falls over or is injured, everyone else has to stay in their relative position until...

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  #ThreeGoodThings • rehearsal for next sunday's concert this morning; bononcini cello sonata is a winner, the continuo realisation worked well enough • i've kept tomorrow free of everything except the evening concert, which is good, so i can hack through, i mean practice, the d minor suite before setting off • stir-fry this evening

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  #ThreeGoodThings (supernumerary edition) • got a score back to the composer for comments, ahead of schedule, yay • finished realisation of a basso continuo line for a sonata i'm playing next week (this should not have been necessary, but it is and so i did it, a bit clunkily) • making good progress on the most straightforward of the other jobs, gave the piano reduction one a break today, but will get back to it tomorrow • there was a power cut this afternoon, which was obviously god saying...

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  okay eating grownuply — three actual meals in a single day, nothing highly processed, all vegan — has not magically made me feel any better and i have a headache now, so i am sodding off to bed, to contemplate the idea that i am allergic* to healthy eating, or veganism, or not being asleep * it’s probably a cold

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  #ThreeGoodThings minimal-maximal edition • i am • i can • i don’t have to

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  #ThreeGoodThings (yesterday edition) • i took the afternoon away from editing. a kind of weekend-in-training half day* • made an exploratory walk to the ring road where the new aldi is, 40 minutes light exercise • arranged to catch up with older daughter by phone today, after a longish gap we were equally responsible for * it was for the most part not enjoyable, as it’s harder to step away from knowing how much work i have to do. and i couldn’t take a holiday from practise for upcoming concert...

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  @blp@framapiaf.org alas i am pollophobic, or antipolletic. apollogetic.

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  i came across this, from 2023, just today, i thought it was very nicely done, and the poetry excellent too. https://youtu.be/XEjL4NwV6Uw

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  if, after a morning hoiking books hither and yon at the charity shop, if i am falling asleep at lunch, what conclusion should be drawn? a) i am lazy and a layabout b) i am hungry to the point that the system is trying to shut down (like my laptop battery) c) i am old d) i am so ——ing tired i can’t even. tbh my upbringing gave me a) as the first answer, but i am beginning to question the truth of that. [shakes fist at dead parents]

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  #ThreeGoodThings • it is a week of new boots. apart from the vastly expensive beauties i bought new, which are still in transit, a friend today gifted me a lovely pair of black boots with medium heels (thanks @SquirrelwithaninvisibleW@mastodon.social ) which are a tight fit but i adore. • i have had a worky day, in three tranches separated by non-work (or charity shop book wrangling) and ending with a short (and late, ending at 10pm) practice session on the cello. i only missed one meal, so i...

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  two, no three consequences of having too much editing work: a) a return of my neck/back ache, which i thought i had seen the back of (haha), but sadly not. b) forgetting to notice the time and therefore meals, and being too tired when i do notice to want to do much if any cooking. c) the low-level toxicity of feeling slightly behind schedule on everything — even though i am not, currently — because i might not have time to finish any of them.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new/117301917726847754 omg this one, from the 1880s, is as bad as you might think from the title. not a surprise, but still i winced. what a waste of good electrons.

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  i was unexpectedly given a bonus fee for a job last month (complicated story, not the point). i need some new autumn footwear. i have had my eye on a pair of fearsomely expensive, well-made and gorgeous ankle boots for a wee while. they cost about £25 more than the bonus fee. should i go for it or is that ridiculous? it would be more than i’ve ever paid for any footwear ever, but unexpected money like this doesn’t exist in the world of sensible-jody. i’m very bad at decisions like this. any...

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  @MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz yep they are. that’s really good to hear.

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  the poverty of imagination that gives us yet another revamp of a wildly outdated series with problematic attitudes, crowding out anything newer, by different voices, for different audiences. it feels like those in power demanding that the next generation experience their own half-remembered childhood. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c65y5xv3j90vo

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  #ThreeGoodThings (one good thing version) reading how others treat themselves well, or try to treat themselves well, or work to undo earlier trauma and treat themselves better, is one of the quieter benefits of being here for me. seeing what other people think is and is not okay. i live and learn.

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  this bbc headline (below) made me roll my eyes. i feel like the writer got into trouble at ‘linking’ and added ‘both’ to try to escape but it just caused a different problem. i spent a short while wondering how a bridge could link just one of them. “first road bridge opens linking north korea and russia” isn’t perfect but is better imho. we don’t need the active voice, since the agency of the countries is implicit. #wordplay North Korea and Russia open first road bridge linking both count...

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  #ThreeGoodThings • a cancelled rehearsal* meant a number of admin things got done that needed doing • including sending a couple of invoices for work completed in the last week or so • and some fod shopping, which i didn’t enjoy but was good in the necessary sense * this will be added to three bad things when we rehearse on thursday next week, since it kiboshed a social thing. so maybe three good things is a zero-sum game. i’m pretty sure that if i were to list four good things, someone else...

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  #ThreeGoodThings (been-a-long-time edition) • an unexpected two-week hiatus in therapy sessions has not been as difficult to navigate as it once might have been • uncovering a slight snafu in my schedule on saturday did not result in difficulties for anyone • leftover pasta sauce is a boon

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  my baroque vocal chamber group (the iceni consort) has come up with •the best ever• concert title and we will be using it forevermore: see it. sing it. sorted. #baroquemusic #concert

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  @SquirrelwithaninvisibleW@mastodon.social ugh yeah that sounds like the churchy people i used to know. awful way of sneakily preaching at you even when passing the time of day.