Good progress this week, especially on the writing front. I’ve had significantly more energy, too, probably due to some combination of the arrival of fall, of switching to new allergy meds, of the fact that J. and I have been playing tennis, and of abstaining from alcohol since early August.
I also started bullet journaling this month. It’s been a great tweak to my usually inconsistent list-making. What fascinates me most about bullet journaling by far, though, is all the jargon around it. Sections aren’t sections, they’re “Modules”. Taking notes is “Rapid Logging”. Reviewing them is “Migration”. It’s the language of software, and I wonder if part of the reason it sticks (for me) is because the language is both new enough to be unusual but old enough to be familiar.
House updates:
- The drain got scoped. The procedure’s kind of like an endoscopy for the house’s GI tract. They snake a camera into the sewer line, turn on all the faucets, watch to see how the water flows. Good news: our sewer line is in great shape; we won’t have to dig it up and replace it. We’d set aside part of the budget for this just in case, and now that money can go somewhere else (hopefully back in my pocket).
- Another big step: we decided on kitchen and bathroom lighting. This might be the first moment so far during renovation where I really felt in over my head. I was up until three in the morning one night trying to figure out how to lay out the recessed kitchen lights when I realized: there are people whose sole job it is to do exactly this one specific thing. A good night’s rest later I figured it out, but it came with a big dose of humility, and consumed a day’s worth of writing time.
