29.8.23 - Health Club baby!!!
So being at the health club for only TWO days has made such a huge difference in our lives. We all feel better - well myself and Oisin - and we encourage each other, and I have thankfully noticed that since Singapore I have not put on weight. It's great being back running and swimming and doing the sauna regularly. So that takes care of the pampering. Just going to the sauna on a regular basis is enough. That alone is worth the admission price.
I prefer running outside though, but needs must. and it's going to be great for the winter as well.
There is otherwise nothing to report. I am still doing up the classroom although yesterday I broke the back of it. Why reference books were put into the library I will never know. Another cool thing about the club is working in it. There is nothing to pull focus. I got my airline headphones out and started working there and got loads done. So, you know, it just seem perfect. I can do admin ,etc there. It's perfect. AND it has stopped me from thinking of the end of the day drink. So we run instead. We run and we swim and we have a sauna.
Today then - I will...
4 - 5: Blog
5 -30: Tidy up desk area and redo daily schedule
5.30 - 7: Write
7 - 9: Tidy classroom
9 - 15: School
15 - 17: Do everything I didn't do yesterday and stuff supposed to do for today - except for school stuff. Admin
17 - 19: Club
19 - 22: School stuff
I will suqueeze a book out of me this year it kills me. I don't know what it will be about yet, but right now I am working on Atlantis. Because - well I don't know why. I have a little bit gone off Atlantis. I love it but it doesn't burn me the way it used to. Although the other day I was watching a thing about the Dogons and how they knew about Sirius. Are we connected to the stars? There is now a obsession with the Ancient Aliens as well. One day someone will write a really good book about Atlantis which takes in all this lore and it might as well be me.
I tidied all the books up yesterday. It was really lovely actually. Seeing so many books. And then there was this massive box of what turned out to be music books. In the past you had ONLY music books, no internet downloads, no photocopying, very few library loans. It was music books or nothing. Once upon a time these books were treasured, placed carefully somewhere to be picked up again. It broke my heart to see that they were now chucked in a box and just thrown into my classroom, literally. Just LEFT there.
So I picked them up and saw tat they were Bach's and Chopin's - weirdly enough my favourite composers. There was some Schubert, but he is very German. There was also the score of Tannhauser - the arias. It looked like it had found a home. THIS is why I end up gathering more and more crap as the years go by. They are treasures I have rescued. Things which no one really appreciates. If I don't rescue them, no one will. The bloody Pirate books would have been thrown out by now. The only reading series we have would be at the bottom of some landfill.
So I took them home. It would be a lovely and fitting collection to my piano book series. I now have not only all of Chopin's Goldberg vars I also have all his Fuges and Preludes. So. there.
The entire room was a total tip. Every room that man goes into is a nightmare. There is no love nor respect. I can't bear these people. Why do they bother? I no longer see the world through the rosy tint of a newly minted anthroposophist, in fact I try and have a little to do with the zealots as possible, HOWEVER, I still do believe in the tenets of it, like the physical is a manifestation of the spiritual. We all live on a continuum. The visible and the invisible are not opposites, they are on the same spectrum.
So I sorted the books into levels of difficulty. There were some very difficult books and some very simple books. The super simple books I gave to Class 2. Then I organised the library so that the books would be on the shelves in the right order and thereafter I began tidying the rest of the place. There are so many books. The school complains about there being no books, but there are so so many.
Honestly, people just need to look after the place.
I am going to start collecting these crates - at least 12 so that I can move things and next year I am dumping things or giving them away.
Clearing out a classroom is good though because you discover things which you had forgotten and you can put them to good use.
Right, I don't have an image from yesterday. Yesterday's image of the health club. It would have been some of those books as well. I threw away all the stupid scores from Taize which were left in my piano seat. I am so glad I don't live with that loser anymore. It is so strange I don't even feel anything for him any longer. It is like that entire part of my life has been erased. Being divorced, being away from him was the best thing that ever happened. Ever. He will try to impress the boys but it won't last long - they will see through the charade. It's all about the pleasing and the false niceness. they will see through it. They always do.
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