AKMA’s Random Thoughts

I gave myself Sunday morning off running (not quite hung over, but undeniably somewhat groggy), but it’s been two miles a day since then. This was the last week of teaching in one of the degree pathways at St Stephen’s House, so I’ll be a bit less frantic beginning next week. And it’s the beginning…

Two miles in 9°, which felt like a glorious heat wave, last-minute preparations, and a glorious dinner party for Margaret’s Nth birthday.

Two miles yesterday, in clear 1° air, on dear Margaret’s birthday, and two more this morning in 0° weather. Someone is mocking me. Hot breakfast yesterday, Rick’s today. Time to clean the house for tomorrow’s big birthday bash for my sweetheart.

I started exercising about five years ago. I was thinking about two things: My father’s pulmonary fibrosis (and my own shallow breathing), and my mother’s multiple sclerosis. I started by skipping rope, reasoning that this would address both concerns. The aerobic exercise got me breathing more deeply, and the jumping provided a daily check on…

Yes, it’s November, but this is a bit on-the-nose; the weather could have sloped off gradually and gotten to frost closer to the middle of the month. Two miles, two degrees, hot breakfast, teaching, tutoring, marking, Mass….

Two chilly miles, fruit breakfast, meetings, marking, examining. Full day.

Two miles, put Margaret on the train, Office and Mass, some Legends in the afternoon.

Two miles, breakfast at Rick’s, tidying up, et cetera. Margaret’s revelling in Kit Smart these days: ‘For the man speaks himself from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet…’.

Ouch, that’s a long interval of neglect. I ran two miles each of the first five mornings, gave myself yesterday morning off cos I was out late, and ran a mile this morning in the rain. I kept to my usual fruit breakfasts on Monday and Tuesday, but indulged in a hot breakfast yesterday (again,…

Yesterday: Two miles, I cheated and had an egg and mushrooms for breakfast, tutorials and marking, staff colloquium, and Guest Night. This morning: two miles, croissant, correspondence, marking, tutorial, excellent NT Seminar given by Teresa Morgan, Evensong and Benediction, and that’s the end of Second.

Tuesday: Two miles, fruit breakfast, lecture, lunch meeting, appointment, tutorial, breath, evening Mass for St Frideswide. Today: Two miles, one fox, hot breakfast, lecture, marking, lunch, class, marking, meeting, Mass, whew!

Two miles, fruit breakfast… Yesterday, an occasional congregant at St John the Evangelist asked me “How long have you worked here?”, to which I answered (a bit puzzled — had she begun losing memories?) “Eight years; this is the beginning of my ninth.” It then dawned on both of us that she hadn’t seen me…