Awake early, meditation, busy work, twitter addiction, eggplant on eggplant, long evening walk, productive writing [Wed 28]

 I write this at 10.52 of the same day, for the first time in many many weeks the daily journals and the day they're written about have caught up! Yeah I'm four posts behind schedule, but I can cover those up tomorrow, no biggie. No that I've learned to get up early!

And early I did get up. At 6.30. Thought about meditating and writing, after using the restroom. The place was occupied for an hour. So instead I just listened to podcast from under my sleep, very much awake.

Did a little bit of meditation in the morning, and a bunch of other things, couldn't make myself write unfortunately I tried I really tried hard, but just couldn't get there.

Some serious detective work in the morning, got pretty busy, didn't get about writing at the work journal. Also, I was feeling pretty low, thanks to the rainy weather, still pretty groggy and bummed out about missing stuff from yesterday.

For lunch I had rice, eggplant and parmesan cheese. I boiled up an egg, couldn't cook it through despite dropping it in boiling water twice, for twenty-five minutes. Bored and desperate I dropped it in the rice and had it, soy sauce instead of salt. It was damn good, soy sauce and eggplant with fragrant rice. No complaints there.

Realized that I forgot to block twitter on my cellphone's new browser, so was hooked on it for the next few hours, political updates, the status of the election and how that could be affecting my plans. It was stressful but goddamn is it entertaining. I do wish we were in less entertaining times.

Also did a few minutes of meditation from this app called Qbrillium that my work provides for free. It's a 'happiness' app or one of those things, I was quite skeptical about it at first, but it's not half bad. If I manage to create a routine and stay at it, this could be good.

Was on twitter until five. It was raining a little bit but the walk couldn't be compromised, hadn't walked in two days after all. So set my external charger and phone up, carried a backpack and headed out. Walked to Porter, from there all the way to Inman and the twin cities plaza, and walked the long street back home. I was amazed, so amazed to discover that my street goes all the way to the Charles. On the way I used headspace to do 'walking meditation', which was basically a mindfulness exercise to take in your surroundings. I could get used to it, replace my podcasts with guided meditation. Inman is incredible, wish I'd gone there more often when I was still drinking and the world was not in uhh such extraordinary circumstances.

Bunch of twitter after coming back. Roommate BB was chillin' watching the office, and soon went to sleep. Roommate PK was at his friend N's place in Cambridge, it's possible we may have come across each other.

Finally forced myself to write, eight to nine posts, I decided. And went at it. The best way to motivate me is to set deadlines, the 15-minute timer has been so useful. After writing 8 posts, went for a nice warm shower, evening routine, and here I am, at 11.01 as I write this, ready for bed. Will note down guessed sleep time tomorrow.

Toodles.