Quick to-do …

… to empty my racing mind:

• Clear/tidy desk
• Add in notes from desk to downshifter blog
• Finish putting cds into new cases
• Move books for sale into box to keep them tidy
• Do finances!
• Do some anki
• Type up some more pimsleur notes

Things to do – 2nd April 2008

Car MOT – schedule

Pay NPower final bill done

Tai chi & Qi gong done, need to find way to successfully incorporate into daily schedule

Correspondence

Meditation

Painting & tidying

Electrician – call & schedule

Money – do budget!! done

Do blog post

Add kanji to Anki done

Mandarin notes

VISA card – another 0% card switch due this month done, detailed on to do 9th April

Mortgage – check what costs will be in summer

Move cd’s into more portable soft case (buy soft case from Maplin)  case bought

Thoughts – Monday 17th March

• Circadian rhythm experiment going well but stayed up too late last night.
  • Fri: start … sleep 19:15
  • Sat: wake 06:30, sleep: 8:30
  • Sun: wake 4:15 then doze on and off to 6:20, sleep 22:15 (45 minutes later than planned)
  • Mon: wake 6:50 with alarm, sleep 21:45 (hopefully)
  • Could use capturing sunrise/sunset figures alongside these to identify any correlation
  • Received reply from Dr Wozniak about circadian rhythms and mental alertness, needs a proper read to make sense of it
• Today wasn’t good for the soul
  • Tried too hard to “carry on regardless” which actually just delayed release of work stress and delayed return to productivity. Work fears became focused (unhealthily) inwards as personal professional doubts, which then clouded everything. Could use active focus on externalising more.
  • Research funding position is slightly bleak. Long term research path will need to be identified early to tackle this. It probably doesn’t need to be a concern at this stage; look far enough down any country road and you’ll find a tractor.
• Will it be possible to “stick it out” until next year? Need to monitor decreasing resilience to upset (such as today) and waning patience; this isn’t a test, just a means to an end. There are others.
• Would like to meditate more, would like flat to be tidier
• Still managed to squeeze in a morning walk and jog through the woods and half way around the playing field; a good start to my first work-day under the circadian rhythm experiment.
• Haven’t decided whether notes like this are better here or in my paper notebook, we’ll see.