I have to start deciding who might see this, as I am using it in fairly frank confessional mode (don't really do another style unfortunately) I have paid the price over the years for wearing hearts on sleeves etc but not sure I can do coy and can't be dispassionate sooo....
Anyway had lovely day avoiding finishing my application - a few hairy moments when I thought references not forthcoming but I now have one safely stashed and will hustle for the other in a.m.
Faffed around on the net in the a.m & rewrote most of what I wrote last night.
Then did my 40 lengths at the pool whilst laughing at the collective hangovers ( and love bites eeww) of a couple of ladies from the Thursday lunchtime swimming posse. It is though, a very small pool and I am getting somewhat pissed off at the meandering and frankly desultory pace of some of the swimmers. I have had to keep one sharpened toe nail on each foot to just give a little side swipe as I have to zig zag round the old gentlemen doing a leisurely backstroke/ imitation of a week old corpse. I know...I know I am hurtling towards this level of decrepitude at a frightening pace myself, but in the meantime - surely they could have sessions for very very slow swimmers, people who don't want their make up to come off in the pool whilst they're chatting at the end, and lane weavers who manage to get in your way wherever you start.....and the rest of us who just want to swim up and down quite rapidly for 40 minutes or so could have our own times...
Maybe the early morning session will be quieter......
After the swim - which despite the pool's similarity to people soup, I really enjoyed as always, I had real homemade soup with my parents - also very nice as we discussed memories of their childhoods - very interesting that they don't see the heartbreaking rejections and hardships as particularly difficult and don't recognise how these chaotic and insecure situations shaped their understandably control freaking lives.
Then I had a lovely walk down the canal and saw an odd beaked sea bird and took many photos. Then I drank tea and talked a lot with my friend. Then I finally went home and did some work - for an hour until I had to go out for a meeting about an arts event in September......now I've just come home to start work again....never mind ...I've still got half of tomorrow...as long as I get up early enough.....things are so much more fun when you know you should be doing something else....