Month: September 2020

I like it when it’s over and another one’s begun – 29th September 2020

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Image is AI-generated ‘a cat dreaming about birds’

Quick one. Kim staring at me. What’s in her brain – what does a cat think about? Dream about. Birds! Birds chattering – go away cat!

Forgot Drops yesterday. Oh no! 60-day streak gone. Oh well – get up, go again.

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that Amy can go to Bangkok and visit her friends and we don’t have to worry about money, I can stay and look after the cats and fish and then next month we can go to Phuket together.

I gotta make plans for the plans I make – 28th September 2020

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Tigger talking – announcing his arrival. Prince Tigger is here, I demand attention.

Light rain. Cap ran out to pee and back again.

Neck sore – stretched and worked. Tigger sprayed in my room – little bastard – why? Shove his nose in it?

Easy week again – all easy. Students present movie reviews. What if they didn’t prepare – of course, they didn’t prepare. They are lazy and unmotivated. How to motivate?

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for all the planning I did earlier in the year so that I don’t have to work so hard on lesson planning now.

The Chiang Rai Alternative Hour #57 – 26th September 2020

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This week there’s music from Flower Travellin’ Band, The Spy From Cairo, Autechre, Incredible String Band, Delmonas 5, Eat Avery’s Bones, Bukkake Moms, Et Cetera, Montreal, Present, The Hold Steady and The Dismemberment Plan.

Intro and background music by Utotem.
Incidentals taken from the Church of the Sub Genius Hour of Slack.

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26th Sept 2021 – It feels like nothing much has happened in the intervening year but it also feels like doing the podcast was more than a year ago. I have discovered much more new music to enjoy in the last 12 months but find myself reading books more often these days and I don’t have the brain power to do both at the same time anymore.

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have a guitar again. I’ll never be a great player, maybe not even a good one, but I can enjoy playing and practising at my own pace.

Play time doesn’t last forever – 23rd September 2020

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Hard on the kids? Maybe. Put them into line a little – talk to them more. Even small classes, it’s hard to get through to everyone – if they don’t understand. Find a leader – push them forward. Help them work together.

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have my own room to be in, to explore my thoughts and feelings, to play and practice hobbies, to meditate and exercise.

To-do list

  • Five compliments
  • Savour something

It’s Oct 4th now. Not sure if I managed to do 5 compliments in one day but I have been conscious to try and compliment more and generally have been able to.

I have been savouring at times though not been consciously finding time to do it.

Teaching has finished though we have one week of sports (we’re not required to do much) and then one week of lesson plans before two weeks holiday.

The irregularity of classes is a little strange to get used to. If I’m at school I prefer to be working and teaching. The environment is still positive and happy though.

I’ve been watching saved YouTube videos to try and clear that backlog. Tomorrow I will take a book and go and sit in a coffee shop and read for a while.

Now that we have free time it’s boring to go to De Lanna when there are other coffee shops to try. The coffee is better in other shops even though the environment may not be so nice.

Imagination turns thoughts – 22nd September 2020

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Tried dictating to the computer to record these but it’s difficult to talk and think sometimes – tells you something!

Nice dreams, didn’t want them to stop – Amy and I were at a public bath with Chris and Hillary – I don’t remember why or how.

I wasn’t tired last night – slept late. Feel okay now after exercise.

First Thai lesson today. Nervous but know it will be okay.

Look forward to coffee as always. Thoughts flip down the river but don’t come now as I’m writing. My stuck mind.

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that I went shopping yesterday which gave me plenty of time to do things I want to do today

To-do list

  • Five compliments.

I’m always complimenting students and Amy so I don’t count those. I managed four compliments today. I will try for five again tomorrow.