Day 46 - My new kettlebell arrived!

I always seem to be on a bad buzz on a Monday these days. The reason being that I have to upload screencasts of my lectures for the week ahead on a Tuesday and, despite being stuck at home all day every day, I still leave all the preparation until the day before! As a result, I spent pretty much the entire day today, making powerpoints, recording lectures and preparing homework assignments. I think, at the start of the lockdown, I used to be more at peace with tapping away on my computer all day, preparing material for class. However, then we had a week off for Easter, and that put me into a different routine which has been tricky to break out of! It’s funny because, before Easter, I didn’t know how I was going to cope with having the week off, and I assumed I’d just work right through it. That obviously did not happen!

In some excellent news, the kettlebell that Fiona ordered for me was delivered today by An Post. This brings to an end a five or six week search for a kettlebell! I don’t know how she did it. As I’ve said before, kettlebells are not available online or in shops, unless you’re willing to spend several hundred euro! I can finally ditch the rock that I’ve been using in Pete’s class. This will be bittersweet for me as I, and the others, have become somewhat fond of my rock. Fiona was very excited about the arrival of my kettlebell anyway. Perhaps even more excited than me!

By the time I had finished my lecture preparation for tomorrow, it was late enough in the evening. Thankfully, today was a much needed rest day in our running training plan, so it was an evening on the couch for me. I finally finished the amazing “Easter Logic Problem” that Anna posted to me. Although I did need a little bit of help from Anna! Then, as is usual, I worked on our lockdown orchestra music. Peter has lots of ideas for how to improve the sound of the piece - we must have played around with the music and discussed how to make it sound better for about an hour. What will I do when I finally release the piece?!Read more