Thursday, April 27
There has been few updates recently. This has been due to a combination of lack of energy, lack of time, lack of arsedness and... well, mostly lack of arsedness I suppose.
I haven't even been doing too many interesting things either. OK, there's been some, but I hardly have tales of debauchery and the like to regale you with. I can however confirm that this week I have been (supposedly) doing a Drawing elective. It has been hell. I attended 50% of the classes, because any less than that and I would have difficulty passing the year for reasons too complex to explain. The rest of the time I have been busy getting on with work I care about only marginally more. This has included the processing of 6 films and making contact sheets for 9. No, it's not been a good week.
My weekend was quite fun though. On Saturday I spent my second day with Alice, Andy's friend, who I'm doing my photography project on. I followed her around her allotment, documenting as she planted potatoes and red onion bulbs. I ate half a packet of Hob Nobs. Afterwards we had a big fire in the communal gardens of the housing co-op. I was meant to record this too, but the battery in the camera went so instead I just sat and enjoyed myself. It's been a very long time since I had chance to sit round A Proper Fire, Outdoors and Everything. Other people from the co-op were there too and all was good. There was even two hodgehegs in the garden next door who were, er, getting to know each other. They snuffled and I snuffled back. It made me happy. I'm hopefully going to go finish the photographs this weekend, as Andy was talking about having another fire for Beltaine, and trying to persuade more people to come.
I've been going to Relate too. Now the exercises I have to do have moved on to actually trying to insert things into myself. This is scary. This is the bit I was dreading. I don't know how well I will cope. We've done some visualisation of how it will happen, and that alone gets my anxiety up. I can only try it and see, I suppose.
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